The Bread & Soup Project #7 – Argentina

You would think, living in Argentina, that this would have been one of the easiest stops in the project. But it’s not, because, you see, Argentines don’t eat soup. They really don’t. They eat stews, and my first impulse, and several people even suggested it, was to prepare locro, easily considered the national stew, if not national dish. But a) I’ve done that before; and b) as I said, it’s a stew.

Now, what’s the difference between a soup and a stew? It’s a fine line, and a fairly blurry one,...