AMO the ARG: food (dulce de leche day, in san telmo, day 2)

i was stalking the area around plaza dorrego, for an hour or so, maybe longer, waiting for my friend. i was hungry and wanting a little something to tide me over until the unknown time she and i met again. i stopped at havanna, for my first taste of real alfajores (i served a version of this dulce de leche cookie sandwich at a little party i had here last summer. they are not even in the same league as the treats at havanna).


i love everything about this: that it's a delicate, but not chewy cookie; that they don't skimp on the dulce del leche but yet that rich cream doesn't overwhelm; that it melts into your mouth. and that this one is covered in meringue...

i did feel like kind of an ass, standing on a narrow strip of sidewalk in buenos aires, pointing my g10 at a half-eaten argentinian cookie. kind of.
it was just too good not to try to share..

part 2 of dulce de leche day involved a mid-afternoon gelato break at freddo, a popular chain. i read somewhere that freddo is good, but maybe not the best. i can't even imagine how anything could be better than this. it has a real nice salty bite. it's so creamy and condensed that it was slow to eat. it seemed forever before it even started to melt.

even the the color is rich.


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oh i ate "real" food that day, too. lunch at a mexican place. i ordered a daily special: arroz con hongos y mil hojas de papas, which apart from the rice and potatoes bit, was kind of a mystery. i thought hongos were going to be beans. well, this is what it is and it was pretty good...

all photos © anita aguilar