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There is a dish [[red underline]] Humitas [[/red underline]] which I ate first in Valparaiso and which is very good. It is made of [[red underline]] mashed corn [[/red underline]] mixed [[red underline]] grill meat broth or chopped meat onions, [[/red underline]] pimento, sometimes some dried raisins, also some milk and folded in the leaves of the corn ear, and fastened with a toothpick so as to keep it together. As far as I can make out the whole thing is chopped together then placed in the leaves and boiled in water or in soup broth. Some addition of lard or perhaps a small amount of tomatoes or beans may still further improve it By putting this inside of a tomato and boiling it all together ^[[or baking]] leaving the leaves out another dish is made.
Another dish, the national
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dish which sells here in the best restaurants at 26 [[cents symbol]] is [[red underline]] Pueleno con verdure [[/red underline]] (chicken with greens) It consists simply of [[red underline]] chicken boiled together with the following vegetables - left in whole pieces. Cabbage, onion, potatoes, a slice of pumpkin, garbanzos (special beans), a piece of corn on the cob, slice of bacon all boiled together [[/red underline]]
This is the reign of the toothpick everybody parades them and handles them in public during and after dinner. [[strikethrough]] Men [[/strikethrough]] Ladies as well as men. [[red underline]] Knifes are used by everybody for ladling food to the mouth. [[/red underline]] Children drink wine as well as their parents. I [[red underline]] have seen no case of drunkenness. [[/red underline]] Their excellent light bottled beer or on draft is the usually preferred beverage