let's eat!

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles
US actor & director (1915 - 1985)

One of the most "tasty" aspects of going back to the roots to your homeplace is giving your taste buds a real treat...Despite globalization, the food one misses from home tastes best right there, nowhere else! During my vacation I often had lunch with my sister. We very much enjoy a large salad and a large diet coke

But when I am home I love to have typical Chilean foods, including the pictured
empanada: a delicious meat pie , the net has more to say about them:

Quote: These Latin American pastries, filled with seafood, meat, cheese, vegetables or fruit are wildly popular. Thought to have originated in Spain, where the Empanada Festival is part of Galician culture, the name comes from empanar, or to coat with bread. Variations of this form of portable meals are found in Cornish pasties, Italian calzone, or turnovers.
Though empanadas are most associated with Chile and Argentina, many South American countries have their own versions. All recipes use a flour shell, some more bread-like than others, and the fillings vary by chef or locale. Unquote. Find a recipe here.

A summer favorite (although nowadays available all-year-round in the frozen foods department!) is the humita, the bulk of it is made up of boiled corn paste, wrapped in cornhusks, which is then steamed. I have never made them myself, they demand a lot of work in the kitchen. They taste wonderfully summery with a tomato salad! Guten Appetit!