4th of July

There are so many American expats in Buenos Aires that there were a few large scale parties happening to celebrate the 4th of July. But since we hadn't read about anything that reminded us of the 4th (potlucks or fireworks), we headed out to a restaurant called Kansas. Kansas serves "American-style barbecue" food, which is kind of vague since barbecue styles vary widely all over the country. Still, the food at Kansas was delicious and really felt like American food. Argentina has excellent meat, but when they grill it here, they tend to either not season the meat or season it with very little. So eating a rack of ribs coated with barbecue sauce was quite a treat here, as was the baked potato stuffed with panceta (tasty, but still not real bacon) and the Caesar salad (with real Caesar dressing)!

In the states, neither Jill or I would typically go out of our way to eat barbecue or other "American" foods. Neither of us eats much peanut butter, chocolate chip cookies, cornbread, or pancakes with syrup, but since those things don't really exist here, we find ourselves craving all of those foods. So we've been eating (or trying to eat) each of those things quite a bit more than we ever have in the states.