The secret charm of food

I love food; it is obviously you need food to live. I love all kind of food especially when I eating a new taste or a new meal. The food it’s an important element in our lives. I do not eat fast food or junk food, because I do not like the taste. I know that the meat of hamburgers is not real meat; nobody knows what ingredients have it.

I taste many kinds of nourishment, I love canned food like tuna (with lemon and olive oil and others spices, maybe a bit of pepper). One time I ate a canned of beam’s and toast, I think that is delicious and of course it’s so easy to make (a joke). I need to have in my fridge convenience food (prepackaged food products) because sometimes I do not have time to cooking a meal, I am late to arrive to my job, so I need to eat very quickly.

A few weeks ago Fernando (our classmate) was eating his meal, and he gave us a big arepa. The arepas are dough flour; (it is look like a Chilean panqueque) and you can throw a lot of thing as cheese, meat, chicken fried, avocado, tomatoes and the list haven't finish. It had an amazing flavour, it was melting inside my mouth, it was incredible, moreover it only had cheese and the join of these elements created an explosion of flavour.

I am a good cooker (not professional but I like cooking) and my family thought one time that I would study to be a chief. I can give you some advice to cooking a delicious baked fish, you need to buy a big reineta and put on the oven, and you need to put on the fish a bit of salt, pepper, English sauce, butter and a pinch of rosemary. I can sure you'll have an amazing experience.

Johnny Depp

I think that representing a character is very difficult to do it, in fact, people study acting in the university during 5 years, as well you can study it in an institute or a school of acting. I cannot do it, because I am very shy, and actors and actress need a lot of personality.

I like actors as Al Pacino, Robert de Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Johnny Depp and Anthony Hopkins. In female roles I prefer someone as Judy Foster or Sharon Stone.

I do not have a favourite actor or actress, but if I must do an election I would choose Johnny Depp. Why? Because I like all his characters, moreover he has a great talent specially to change his appearance. Deep is the Tim Burton’s favourite actor and they have been working for 20 years.

Johnny Depp is an American actor. He was born in 1963, Owensboro, Kentucky. He has won a Golden Globe and a Ceasar Prize, moreover he was been nominated for the Oscar Prize.

I like his performance in the movie “Edward Scissorhands” because he did a good work with his body. He tried to work with expressive faces, because he did not have a long dialogue, he did a good work because his character had a lot of body expression, moreover he had scissor hands, so he really look like a young with scissor hands. Another great performance is when he works in “The Sleepy Hollow” again with Tim Burton. In this movie he represents a detective and he did a good character.

I believe that some day Deep will win an Oscar Prize, He loves the acting, and obviously he deserves to be awarded with the best prize that an actor wish.

Our traditions

I think that it is an important discussion. To me it is obviously, we must to listening typical music. Why? Because is the only season when we can learn about our country, their typical music, instrument and culture. You know, I like Rock and other branch of metal music, but in this season we need open our minds. We have a lot of typical music, because our country is narrow but very long, so we have several ethnographic tribes and they represent the traditions of our forefathers.

In the south we have polka, Cueca and Chilote music. In the north we have Andina music; moreover we have the Pascuense music. You can see that our country have a lot of traditions, for this reason we need to cultivate and learn about our customs.

The Cueca lyrics are very funny, I loved “El Guaton Loyola” and I enjoy when a listening the polka “El Sacristan”. As example, last week I saw a “Charango” performer, His name is Freddy Torrealba and he won the Altazor Prize. He plays an instrumental song of Victor Jara called “La Partida”. It was amazing; I never believe that this instrument could do it. He was a perfect presentation and I learn about a new instrument, moreover I discover through this performer the music of Victor Jara. Torrealba was born in Santiago de Chile in 1966 and he was playing since he had three years old. He played in several Folk groups.

Don't Stop The Music

You can see, all my life I was been connected to the music, my mother studied to be music teacher, my father was a singer-songwriter, my uncle played guitar in a tropical band, my brother studied in the “SCD” to be a guitar performer, actually my cousins have a metal band called “Spriganth”, moreover I played electric bass in a few metal bands.

It is difficult to me talk about music, because always people said that I am mad, because I enjoy metal, folk, tango and soundtracks too. I like all kind of music, for example I love listening “Adios Nonino” by Astor Piazzola. I think that it is an amazing Tango. I adore rock music and his entire branch: Hard Rock, Agro, Death, Trash, Hardcore, Power Metal and Progressive. It is stranger to other people, but I can listening a song by Silvio Rodríguez and then I can listening Trash Metal. I don’t have problem about this, music is so beautiful to pigeon-hole in a kind or style of music.

One of my favourite bands is Symphony x, an American band that plays progressive metal, and their album “The divine wings of tragedy” is a work of art. They had been playing for 15 years; but obviously, in this season I prefer typical folk songs.

Pomaire

I'm going to travel with my family to Pomaire. We always visit Pomaire, because it is a beatiful place to do a pic-nic, and you can fly kites. You can walk to this little town. Pomaire is well known because its handicraft. This town has a lot of artisans that work with clay, and they have the best “cacharritos de greda”. This place is famous for its “Chicha”. They have a lot of typical food, for example: empanadas, anticuchos, mote con huesillo, etc. One of the most famous restaurants is “El Parrón”, it has reasonable prices, but if you don't have much money you can do a good barbecue in the camping, but the most important are the prices. It is very cheaper to do a trip to Pomaire, people think that is very expensive, but they are wrong. Pomaire lives out of tourism and it is a good option if you want to save money. I like the happines of the fellow country people, I like all the parties, and I love eating empanadas, anticuchos and drinking “chicha”.

I believe that this year will be a little sad, because the miners are trapped yet, for this reason I'm going to drink and say the best cheers of my life, for the miners and the country. Cheers!