CHILE

Chile is a long and narrow country. It has many customs and one of the most important for the Chilean people is food. Our cuisine has been influenced by ancient indigenous people and the Spanish conquered them. However, the traditional Chilean food is empanada, asado or pastel de choclo, but for the large geographic area of the country, the recipes are very different from each other.

I divide the meals according to the north, center and south of the country.

In the north of Chile the people continue to use Aymara and Atacameñas traditional foods such as maize, quinoa, squash, potatoes, etc. and used the llama or Alpaca meat for cooking, this delicious achieved.

In the central zone of Chile the people working the land thus to get a lot of food that gives us vegetables and fruits. Besides the VII region is noted for the wine production and winemaking  with the best “sepas” of the area such as "Cabernet Sauvignon", "Merlot", "Chardonnay", etc.

In the south of the country, the Mapuche and Chilotes base their meals on potatoes, merquén, pans and curantos. This area is known for shellfish that people pull from the sea every day. It is also important to mention the influence of German pastries brought many delicious recipes sweets.

On the other hand, the Chilean people do not care much for your health. We put aside our physical and psychological health. For example few people are given the time to put creams on the body, face and hands, not using sunscreen for protecting our skin from UV rays because we do not realize that every day they kill our skin, the only exercise that most people do is walk, but that's not enough for a healthy body, we did not eat healthy with nutritious meals, do not care for our cholesterol. Diabetes, etc. It is necessary that we begin to love and care for our body because in the future we will suffer the consequences and we cannot blame anyone.