{"id":30918,"date":"2017-02-23T09:54:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=30918"},"modified":"2017-02-22T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:00:03","slug":"trying-to-be-patriotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2017\/02\/23\/trying-to-be-patriotic\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to be Patriotic"},"content":{"rendered":"I have five other suitemates, all from different nationalities. From the start of the year they have been kind enough to introduce their different cultures to me in many ways, \u00a0but my favourite has been\u00a0their food. \u00a0I wanted to return the favour and introduce them to my country's food and culture. I've lived in five countries and I always find it difficult to find a single culture to call my own, but \u00a0I chose Argentinian food becuase\u00a0I was born there.\r\n\r\nThe first step was to find the best Argentinian restaurant in Toronto. I decided to turn to Google, searching \"Best Argentinian Restaurant in Toronto\". I did some research of course:\u00a0reading reviews, looking through all the pictures, and using more than one website. Thankfully none of my suitemates are vegetarian, so they were excited about trying one of my favourite Argentinian\u00a0dishes called Asado. Asado is a term both used for a barbecue and the social event of having and attending a barbecue.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-11.16.52.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30920 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-11.16.52-300x183.png\" alt=\"Search Screenshot\" width=\"411\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-11.16.52-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-11.16.52-1024x623.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-11.16.52.png 1188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Asado\u00a0is the ultimate Argentinian dining experience, the cooking process is long and orderly. I have great memories of my father and grandfather cooking Asado\u00a0for the entire family. Even as an Argentinian and avid Asado eater I find it quite difficult to remember what eat cut of beef stands for (and I speak fluent Spanish). I was worried that my friends and I wouldn't know what to order, luckily the menu or \"la carta\" came with awesome instructional images.\r\n\r\nI went in with no expectations - after all\u00a0Canada is very far away from Argentina. How could it be possible to get the best Argentinian meat from so far away? Well, I was very wrong, the Asado was one of the best I ever had. I was surprised, since how could the \"replica\" possibly be better than the real thing??\r\n\r\nI talked to my family about it and we can to an interesting conclusion maybe Argentina exports some of its best meat instead of keeping all of the good stuff and letting Argentinians consume it. My parents said that they had to experience it for themselves, maybe they don't trust my judgement.\r\n\r\nIn the end, even if it maybe isn't the best Asado in the whole world it was an incredible experience and I am glad I was able to show my friends about my culture through food. I was able to not only take them to try some of my favourite foods but also used it to talk about our past.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2017\/02\/flag-for-argentina.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30921 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2017\/02\/flag-for-argentina-300x161.png\" alt=\"flag-for-argentina\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2017\/02\/flag-for-argentina-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2017\/02\/flag-for-argentina.png 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI have five other suitemates, all from different nationalities. From the start of the year they have been kind enough to introduce their different cultures to me in many ways, \u00a0but my favourite has been\u00a0their food. \u00a0I wanted to return&hellip;\n<\/div><div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2017\/02\/23\/trying-to-be-patriotic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Trying to be Patriotic&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2017\/02\/23\/trying-to-be-patriotic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Trying to be Patriotic&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,60,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30918"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30925,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30918\/revisions\/30925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}