and the meaningful
Episode 15: Talking Bean-to-Bar Chocolate with Mark Gerrits of Obolo Chocolate“If we want to create a market, if we want to change chocolate culture, I hope there’s more people that do it. I hope we can be a beacon of hope, of inspiration, that we can do it.”
Episode 14: The Emergence of Uruguayan Wine with Juan Andrés Marichal of Marichal Wines“Uruguay is in a very good moment. Many people are saying that this is the next region you have to discover.”
Episode 13: The Fascinating World of Fungi with Guiliana Furci of Fundación Fungi“Chile shares its marine ingredients with Peru. We share our terrestrial animal ingredients, or species, with Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil. But, really the only ingredients that differentiate us totally from our neighbors are our mushrooms.”
Episode 12: From Wine Lover to Winemaker, with Michael Evans of The Vines of Mendoza"We knew we had this idea of buying a piece of land and farming it for people and letting them start their dream of making wine."
From our Journal
Stone, Light, and Fire: Arequipa, Peru’s under-touristed south
The water comes up to my neck. It’s so warm it feels almost womb-like. Ripples form as a couple of doves swoop down to skim the puddles next to the soaking pool. I float, exhausted from nearly ten hours of transit including a pre-dawn flight from Santiago to Lima, and then another hour-long flight to […]
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What the Desert Asks of You
The first thing you notice landing in Calama is the incredible dryness. On the road to the desert oasis of San Pedro, the jumping off point to the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, the landscape registers few signs of life — dry riverbeds, copper colored hills, and even an entire mountain range made from compressed […]
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The Uruguayan Riviera — February 2027
The Uruguayan Riviera returns February 19–25, 2027 — our third edition, and it gets better every time. I‘m standing on the sand dunes above Playa Mansa in José Ignacio, Uruguay. Big raindrops — the fat, splattering kind — are beating down on my head and the cashmere sweater I am wearing to ward off the […]
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