viernes, 15 de agosto de 2008

Where time stopped

In Uribelarrea, a city near Cañuelas, we can find grocery stores, cheeses and memories
The city of Uribelarrea possesses earthen dusty streets that protect acacias and ash trees; naps of sun with dogs that they bark tirelessly; Geese, hens, horses, bicycles, and almost no cars, everything perfumed for the smell of the bread recently baked of the bakery painted yellow.
Some tame madmen rest his drowsiness at the octagonal square or in anyone of the eight convergent streets or four diagonals, resultants of the drawn original designed by the engineer architect Pedro Benoit, the same one that drew The Silver.
At 50 minutes of Buenos Aires and at 15 of Cañuelas, this rural and historic small town founded by Uribelarrea's Mr. Miguel Nemesio in 1890, he appears in the tourism with grocery stores, restaurants, cold cuts, cheeses and craft beers.
But there was a time, nearly the 30s, in which Uribelarrea possessed five stores of general bunches and four schools . There were clubs and gala dances.The milky train passed and other 34 daily services, and the familiar business were working near 100 tambos.In general, Basque and Italian emigrated to the country tempted for his prosperity.
Uribe, as the clients call it, was founded before the arrival of the railroad, that it began to work in 1892: When the first locomotive in front of the flaming station blew the whistle . In the town, 19 houses existed with his parish church Our Lady of Luján, of neo-gothic style. A great part of the antique town purely the tambero desappeared ( ... ) ; Also the Escuela Agrotécnica Salesiana Don Bosco keeps working, one of first ones belonging to Latin America that offers cheeses and sausages elaborated by 350 pupils and teachers. In this town's entrance, Máquinas's and Herramientas Rurales Leopoldo Rizzi's Museum exhibits an important collection of machines and antique tools the weekends.

The tambo's taste
With all this mystique and some facilities for part of Cañuelas's municipality, Uribelarrea was elected by microemprender to install establishments of craft products. Such is the case of Goñi's Tambo Caprino Valle. There, Horacio Martínez and his woman, Regina, 100 Anglo Nubian multipurpose goats make an effort to and accomplish his specialties. In addition to have lunch or to take tea and to buy exquisite products - milk, liquor and cheeses candy of goat elaborate to the Argentine style, fellow Sardinian, provolone, among others -, the owners offer a didactic visit. On the other hand, with antique Italian recipes and Spaniards, the agronomist Miguel Carello elaborates and sells sopressatta Sicilian, salametti, Calabrian sausage, among another sausages of Pueblo Escondido. Carello is also chief of the Escuela Don Bosco's production, where in addition to sausages and cheeses, they bring up themselves and the parrilleros ... The specialist of Town Escondido utilizes spicery, manual machines, the zone's beef of cold storage rooms, bandage laying hens's eggs, rabbits, chickens swim without conserving additives. On the spot the elaboration of the sausages or his maturation in environments with controlled temperature can be seen, and besides tastings come true .
Before the return, it is possible to observe how the sun goes off from the brewery's tables, singing softly to and to the horses's trot that spur on the cattle toward the corrals.

Silvina Beccar Varela
Source: www.lanacion.com.ar

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