Gaucho food and drink

The main food of the gaucho is roast beef, as well as goats and sheep, although the true gaucho cooking is almost any meat if it is necessary (one of the few meats that is “taboo” is the unconditional friends: horses; dogs and even the domestic cat).  Mainly in the northwest of Argentina (although it is disseminated in various forms in almost every country), is part of the diet “locro,” a stew of corn (or other plant component) with meat.

The alcoholic beverage most consumed until the late nineteenth century in Geneva was brought in large quantities, at affordable prices then, mainly from the Netherlands In his spare time often the gauchos drink and drink the infusion called mate typically traditionally consumed in a hollowed gourd with the water heated to mate (do not boil) about cooking in a container called pava or boiler (two names for the same container that reminds a teapot).
Pulperias typically meet in the place of supply for rural areas where there were exchanges and sociabilizaba. There he met the neighbors and the payment of transit passengers. Taking alcoholic beverages (burnt cane, gin, wine, accommodation), smoking and playing cards (e.g. the trick), or entering different types of bloodless duels such as malambo (originally tap competition between males) and the payadas

Guitar is a horse racing or cuadrera calls, or “riders” riding skill.  Occasionally for various reasons (most were the usual “by polleras”, i.e. rivalry for the love of women) and were produced in Creole duels.   For this event almost every gauchos often trained to use the tip charred sticks, and such training is called “ojeo.”  The contestants have to predict rapidly, how to attack their opponent.
In addition to expert riders, mule drivers, trainers and reserves (in the early nineteenth century it was common for men to begin riding since early childhood), many gauchos were highlighted and emphasized by the knowledge of the territory and its climate, giving them the name (from the seamen’s XVI) “Baquia” “baquianos” or “baqueanos.”  Many gauchos, are mostly categorized by the authorities of his day as “rural bandits,”