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Christine Folch
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I study & write about Latin America, politics, power & cuisine. New book! The Book of Yerba Mate🧉: A Stimulating History (Princeton)
Pro tip: just put that GirlScouts Thin Mint cookie into your morning coffee.
#noregrets
January 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Chicagoland, we’re coming your way.

Save the date: 2.6.2025

#thebookofyerbamate🧉
January 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
El restaurante se llama La Pampa y está en la ciudad de Taitung. La dueña es Cristina Mendez.
January 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
January 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Un estudiante nuestro de DUKE nos envió este video y estas fotos de un restaurante paraguayo 🇵🇾 en Taiwan 🇹🇼. Tomó un cocido y después comió empanadas para el tereré rupa.
January 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Syria is a **major** destination for Argentina's yerba mate🧉

71.2% of Argentina's yerba exports went to #Syria in 2023!

#DYK #yerbamate #Argentina
(Official INDEC--Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos--numbers from Argentina)
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December 15, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Hoy!

Conversatorio virtual: Día Internacional de los Derechos Humanos – Desafíos Actuales

🗓 Fecha: 10 de diciembre de 2024
🕕 Hora Argentina: 15:00 hs

Inscripciones aquí:
www.ucel.edu.ar/evento/conve...
December 10, 2024 at 2:19 PM
The secret to a moist Thanksgiving turkey is to cook it with duck fat rendered from the leftover Peking ducks (plural) y’all ate the day before.

The canned cranberry sauce is still the undefeated champ of Thanksgiving.
November 28, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Pan cubano on the dashboard for size comparison.

La Segunda, the world famous 🇨🇺Cuban bakery, doesn’t play around. No visit to Tampa would be complete without a visit!
November 23, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Picked up my copy of Forecasts signed by Caroline Schuster, the author herself.

And I got some free sticker swag to boot.

#AAA2024 #graphicethnography
November 22, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Still undefeated: I play a game every time I visit a southern US city “I bet I can find #yaupon in less than 5 minutes.”

Here it is at the #AAA2024 in Tampa.

Curious about North America’s caffeinated plant and/or its better known South American cousin yerba mate? So was I!
November 21, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Looking forward to the AAA2024 in Tampa! #anthropology
November 21, 2024 at 1:17 PM
The difference between #yaupon (l) and #yerbamate (r) leaves.

(FYI, both plants make for great caffeinated drinks.)

Both plucked by me—yaupon in Austin TX; yerba mate, now dried, in Cordillera, Paraguay.

#ilex
November 14, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Breakfast in Austin.
October 11, 2024 at 2:07 PM
I don’t understand why spicebush berries aren’t more of a thing. They are fantastic (a dash of heat alongside allspice-like notes).
August 18, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Postcards from Paraguay.
August 7, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Who is my-vote.org? They keep texting me w/“our records show you haven’t signed up to receive ballot by mail” alerts. Can’t find a website for them. Obviously didn’t click the link in the text.

If this is fraud, who should I alert?
August 3, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Prepping our holiday gift: Dulce de Leche.
December 14, 2023 at 11:26 PM
Turned this into shortbread.
November 12, 2023 at 1:09 PM
No-dig, no-till gardening. Trying my hand at it… let’s see how it goes!

Compost + Cardboard

(I’m not a gardening expert—this may fail spectacularly.)

plantsky
October 6, 2023 at 1:22 PM
Search drinks in your camera roll

#yerbamate #Ilexparaguariensis
October 6, 2023 at 9:31 AM
Holy smokes. Do those AI companies realize they used *Disney* without permission???

You don’t mess with the mouse. #Books3
September 27, 2023 at 8:36 PM
In just a few days!

The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura
September 23, 7:00 PM
Nelson Music Room (East Duke 201)
Free and open to the public

A little bit of 🇵🇾Paraguay is coming to Duke University. You should, too!

More info: tinyurl.com/mudcuyj7
September 21, 2023 at 4:17 PM
Mark your calendars!

We are delighted to have the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura from Paraguay 🇵🇾 at @DukeU

🗓 Saturday, September 23
🕖 7:00 PM

More info: tinyurl.com/2d8n8cp7
September 12, 2023 at 1:58 PM
To wit: not one post about Paraguay, til now!
July 4, 2023 at 1:33 AM