Filed under: Plato del Día | Tags: Chile, cocktails, Peru, pisco, South America
Today’s cocktail has a summer vibe yet it’s approaching winter in the Midwest. However, summer is arriving in South America, the place of origin of the Pisco Sour. Pisco is a brandy distilled from grapes and also the name of a Peruvian port town. The genesis of the liquor resulted from a ban on wine by the king of Spain in the 17th Century. Industrious and thirsty South American locals devised a way around the ban by distilling the grape in the form of pisco.
Filed under: Plato del Día | Tags: Anthony Bourdain, chivito, colonia del sacramento, food, montevideo, South America, Uruguay
There’s a very good reason why I didn’t lose as much weight on my second backpacking trip to South America as I had on previous trips to Europe and Peru. I usually come home ten to twenty pounds lighter after travel but my Spring 2009 trip was an exception. I didn’t gain weight but my clothes still fit the same when I came home; The chivito is one of the reasons.
