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Río de la Plata Foodways

Regional

The food region of the estuary and its hinterland — Uruguay, the Argentine littoral and Buenos Aires, with edges into Paraguay and Rio Grande do Sul. BEEF from the pampa and the campaña; MATE; ASADO; the enormous Italian and Spanish immigration of 1870-1930 that gave both shores pizza, pasta, fainá, milanesa and the café; DULCE DE LECHE; and a pastry counter — medialunas, bizcochos, facturas — that is recognisably one tradition. ⚠ A COMPARISON AND RELATIONSHIP LAYER. It is not a parent that absorbs Uruguayan or Argentine foodways, and a dish that lives here is not thereby anyone’s.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Spanish, Italian

What is recorded

  • The Río de la Plata is recorded as a shared food region spanning Uruguay, the Argentine littoral and Buenos Aires, with edges into Paraguay and Rio Grande do Sul. It is a comparison and relationship layer, not a parent that absorbs the national systems, and a dish recorded within it is not thereby assigned to any one country. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Italian documented

    The immigration of 1870-1930 gave both shores pizza, pasta, milanesa and fainá.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • part of Uruguayan Cuisine documented
  • related to Argentine Cuisine documented

    Buenos Aires and the littoral are the other shore of the same food region.

  • related to Paraguayan Cuisine documented

    Through mate, the river system and the Guaraní layer, rather than through the Italian immigration that defines the estuary itself.

Regional cuisines

Recipes

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