Dishes
Lamb barbecue
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King crab
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Trout
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Black hake
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Rhubarb marmalade
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CALAFATE...
A legend says that, Koonex, the
elderly healer of a local tribe, was too exhausted
and old to continue walking. Koonex, understood the
natural laws of life.
The women of the tribe set up a shelter with guanaco
skins and gathered plenty of firewood and food for
the ancient healer and let her alone to die singing
the family song.
She felt life seeping away. She began to feel the
silence draw her into a heavy embrace.
Many suns and many moons pased and spring arrived,
plants sprouted swallows, plovers arrived... life
returns.
A flock of birds landed in Koonex shelter singing
cheerfully. Suddenly, the elderly healer spoke from
inside her shelter she rebuked the birds for having
left her during the long and rigorous winter.
One swallow, overcoming the initial surprise, answered:
- "we left in the fall because there in no food
and during the winter we have no shelter".
When a sudden wind turned away the guanaco shelter,
instead of Koonex there was a beautiful thorny bush
of fragrant yellow flowers. During summer the ripen
into a tasty deep blue berries fruit.
After tasting the fruit some birds stopped migrating
and once who heard of the fruit, returned to feed.
Since then, we say, "who
eats Calafate, always returns"...
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