Steak is off the menu for Argentinians as the country’s austerity policies bite

“Was the steak and wine as good as I’ve heard?” Undeniably the most common question I’m asked when I return from Argentina. And while my answer is – obviously – yes, the question is asked with good reason. The association with beef and steakhouses (parrillas in Spanish) and world-class malbecs from Mendoza are synonymous with South America’s second-largest country.

The Argentine cattle ranches and their famous gauchos not only produce the abundance of beef that has been consumed domestically and exported worldwide since the 1800s,…

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