When I first came here three years ago, I heard a Brasilian classmate of mine talking about how much he loves Uruguay.  He went on and on about Colonia de Sacramento – how it was …

Once upon a time in the 70s and 80s, Mar del Plata was THE place for the rich and famous of Argentina to have a weekend home near the beach.  Every summer this city just …

Tomorrow starts the 8th German Film Festival in Buenos Aires.  The German film industry is one of the largest in Europe and since the 90′s has seen a great resurgence with films reaching international acclaim …

I’m really fortunate to have my small group of expat girlfriends. Unfortunately, we don’t get together on a regular enough basis – ususally one of the girls will send out an email letting the others know that it’s time to catch up. She will set the date (usually a weekday so as not to disturb our heavily packed weekend social calendars) and time (since we all work, dinnertime just seems to fit perfectly). This girl then has taken on the mother of all responsibilities -cooking for her friends who show up with bottles of wine or champagne or even sometimes a little dessert for the group.

Today when I woke up it was three degrees (Celsius, in Fahrenheit that would be about 37 degrees) – so we’re into winter and all of Argentina is getting colder in these months. Even though the cold here doesn’t even compare to my hometown Chicago’s blistery weather, it still wreaks havoc on my skin. There are tons of products available to care for your skin, but a lot tend to be over-perfumed, overpriced, over-packaged and sometimes even require you to purchase 3-4 other supplementary products (that’s unethical marketing!). So today I’m going to break this down and give you a few economical suggestions to maintain your beautiful skin in cold weather – the sustainable way.

As a society, Argentines love to have love affairs with everything from their television stars to the hottest new trends whether it be cell phones and ultra new gadget technology, clothing, food, hair styles or their cars. And they’re really good at keeping up with the latest and greatest trends and their consumption habits are amazing – really. But they’ve had a lot of practice. In 1911, Argentine businessman Torcuato di Tella decided to start the industrial machine company Siam di Tella.