Naples Italy Saint to Buenos Aires Favorite Son? Maradona's Most Dangerous Game

Buenos Aires FIFA World Cup game time is a few hour national holiday where literally you can hear a pin drop in an otherwise non-stop chaotic city.

Buenos Aires sidewalks that are typically buzzing with the caffeinated Portenos are empty. The roads that are typically hazardous to drive are empty. Buses, the colectivos, that are typically wall to wall people with standing room only are empty. Store fronts that are typically open are shuttered. Buenos Aires literally freezes at world cup game time.

Then a goal. Eruptions ooze from apartments. Trucks that are on the road blow their horns. Even if you are not watching the game you know there is a GOOOAAAAALLLLL! ARGENTINA.

In this 2010 FIFA World Cup Diego Maradona is playing a most dangerous game tempting fate. Can one man be canonized in life by the people of two countries?

A giant Maradona mask has been erected next to the Buenos Aires obelisk , where a huge projection screen TVs play the games. The hinchas - the fans - congregate in this makeshift soccer church for each game.

Maradona is on a quest for immortality in Argentina, after losing the status here a few times before. After playing in Naples Italy for a few years the shop keepers there keep pictures with a candle below manifesting that he has already been canonized by the Napoli fans. Returning to his country Argentina and gaining and losing respect by the hinchas several times, Maradona is the 2010 World Cup Argentina National team coach where it seems he will either be canonized or destroyed by his country that famously canonized Eva Peron 50 years ago.


Argentines are a tough proud people, and particularly Portenos who are mostly descendants from Southern Italians judge people by most recent success or failure with everything before irrelevant.

It appears that 2010 World Cup the world's toughest fans, these hinchas, will either saint Maradona or once again kick Maradona to the curb forever cementing his status in Argentina.

In today's win against South Korea 4-1 the city's people and the provinces people are walking above the earth and Maradona is a Saint. But as for tomorrow, well, we'll see. It is a most dangerous game for Maradona who is already a saint in Naples trying to be sainted in Buenos Aires. Stay tuned to 2010 FIFA World Cup to see if this drama ends in tragedy or comedy! Either way 2010 World Cup and Maradona will for sure make history.

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Narco Tango: Live Tango Music from World Tango Festival Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires travel and Buenos Aires tour is authentic when you find your self moving like a Porteno, people who were born in Buenos Aires, who move to their own beat, a rhythm that continually pulses in Buenos Airs, permeating the soul after just a few hours of walking the streets of Buenos Aires. Like RIO has its samba, Buenos Aires has its tango, which seems to seep out of every store into the street when walking the streets, it is playing when you hop into a taxi, and of course oozes all night from milonga clubs so life in Buenos Aires includes hearing all kinds of tango music all the time, enhancing life's moments with deep feelings.

Tango music is very popular live. Today one of the most famous live tango bands is Narco Tango. Here is Narco Tango playing live from the Buenos Aires Tango Festival, which happens every August when Buenos Aires and its public spaces literally convert to Tango clubs.



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Buenos Aires Farm-Raised Chicken Egg - 8 Centimeters & 100 Grams

Buenos Aires Farm-Raised Chicken Egg - 8 Centimeters & 100 Grams

It's been a long time since we've seen an 8 centimeter long egg weighing in at 110 centimeters. But in Buenos Aires they are quite common.

In our Buenos Aires neighborhood of Saavedra the local Carnicero has all the best cows, chickens, and eggs for consumption.

Inside a big bright yellow yolk - WOW! We ate it caballo-style over a bed of green vegetables. Los Portenos will have a fried egg with just about anything, including their favorites pizza, steak, and french fries. When a dish is topped with a fried egg it is called caballo-style. Pizza caballo, patate fritas caballo, and bife de chorizo caballo are Los Portenos favorites.

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Buenos Aires Backyard Parillia

Without a backyard parilla - a built in grill with chimney - a house is not a home in Buenos Aires.

So we had to get a house with a parilla to call home. And this being another gorgeous summer weekend in Buenos Aires we are firing up the grill, popping the vino and taking a dip in the pool while we read, garden, tweet, and twiddle around the house.

Although Los Portenos tend to get lost in all the meats on the fire, in our home without vegetables on the parilla too it's not an authentic Buenos Aires parilla.

Typically we grill organic vegetables grown locally in our little neighborhood, which hasn't changed much in the last 100 years. We live among the descendants of Italian immigrants whose parents came to Buenos Aires about 100-120 years ago. On the parilla the vegetables we include:

• Red pepper - Morrones
• Onion
  
• Zucchini
• Eggplant
• Pumpkin
  
• Garlic

As for the meats, the barrio's Carnicero Orestes, whose been on the corner for 62 years, cut our favorite:

• lomo which is a beef tenderloin
• tapa de quadril which is the rump maybe which cut cooked fat side down is the most tender, also called picana
• chorizo filled by Orestes with meats, no fatty parts to break the teeth
• Whole chicken butchered just right so the poor little guy lays flat out on the grill
  

And a treat, but only a few bites, is provoletta cooked in a cast iron skillet topped with oregano, red pepper and sometimes a tomato.

Buon Appetito!

Otro Aires: Live Tango Music from Buenos Aires

Otro Aires live tango music from Buenos Aires and the world tango festival.

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