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The third came off passenger ships between roughly 1880 and 1950, when Italian and Spanish immigration reshaped the country so thoroughly that pasta on Sundays, milanesas on weeknights and pizza by the slice now read as completely Argentine. What holds it together is a preference for the direct: few spices, long unhurried cooking, generous portions, and an aversion to chile heat that surprises anyone arriving from Peru or Mexico. Sweet gets its own department entirely, and almost all of it runs through dulce de leche.","Beef sets the terms. Argentine cattle are largely pasture-raised, and the butchery follows its own map — asado de tira cut across the rib bones, vacío from the flank, entraña, matambre, colita de cuadril — names that do not translate cleanly into American or European cuts. The default treatment is the parrilla: a grill loaded with embers raked from a wood fire, the meat set high above them and cooked for hours at a temperature low enough that you can hold a hand over the grate. Seasoning is coarse salt. Sauces come afterward and on the side, which is why chimichurri and salsa criolla live in bowls at the end of the table rather than in the cooking.\n\nThe northwest tells a different story. Salta, Jujuy, Tucumán and Catamarca sit high and dry against the Andes, and their kitchens run on white hominy corn, squash, beans, potatoes, goat and llama, seasoned with cumin and sweet paprika rather than the near-empty spice rack of the Pampas. Locro, humita, tamales and the hand-cut empanada all belong here, and they connect straight across the border to Bolivia and northern Chile — this is one culinary region that a political map cuts in half.\n\nItalian immigration supplied the weeknight. Milanesa is the national cutlet, eaten breaded and fried at home, sandwiched in bread at kiosks, or buried under ham and cheese in a restaurant. Fresh pasta shops sell ravioli and sorrentinos by the kilo, ñoquis are eaten on the 29th of the month, and pizza in Buenos Aires evolved into its own thick, cheese-heavy species with fugazzeta as the local flagship. Spanish influence shows up in tortillas, pucheros and the empanada itself, which came across the Atlantic long before it acquired provincial fillings.\n\nSweets are their own discipline, and dulce de leche is the axis: milk and sugar cooked down to a thick caramel that fills alfajores, layers cakes, tops pancakes and is eaten off a spoon without apology. Argentina and Uruguay both claim its invention and neither claim is settled; the same preparation exists as manjar in Chile and manjar blanco in Peru. Alongside it sit quince and sweet potato pastes eaten with cheese, Italian-derived pastries, and the medialuna — a small, sticky, syrup-glazed croissant that is the standard breakfast.\n\nThe drink that frames all of it is mate: yerba leaves packed into a gourd, drunk through a metal straw, refilled and passed around a circle. It is not a beverage ordered in cafés so much as a social object carried in a bag with a thermos, and the sharing rules around it — one gourd, one straw, everybody drinks — say more about Argentine table culture than any dish.",[12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21],"grass-fed beef","yerba mate","dulce de leche","sweet paprika (pimentón)","cumin","flat-leaf parsley","white hominy corn","chorizo criollo","oregano","green olives","Dinner starts late — nine at the earliest, later in summer — and lunch is the bigger meal in much of the country. 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