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I'm originally from Sheffield in England. I've lived in Buenos Aires for about 13 years. 

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This -- one of the noisiest and busiest avenues in Buenos Aires. This is Corrientes. 

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It's famous for its theaters. There's a fantastic theater scene in Buenos Aires -- over 300 theaters.

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Buenos Aires -- the thing I like about it is that it's a great literary city. Some of the world's greatest writers --

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well, the Spanish-speaking world's greatest writers -- have come from here, such as Cortazar, Borges, and Sabato. 

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And as a writer, it's really enjoyable to live in Buenos Aires and feel close to that tradition.

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Now, let's get some lunch at Pizza Banchero, one of my favorite pizza places. Let's go.

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Buenos Aires has a long history of Italian immigration. 

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There's a lot of pizza and pasta and that kind of thing in the Argentine national cuisine and it's really been adopted as their own. 

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So, this is [a] classic Buenos Aires dish. This is the fugazetta pizza -- fugazza pizza -- 

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which is basically cheese and onion, which doesn't sound very impressive, but in Buenos Aires, it's a culinary masterpiece. 

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And this place, Banchero is the place where, supposedly, the fugazetta pizza was invented. So, it's really kind of special to eat it here.

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I'm originally from Chicago. I've been living in Buenos Aires for about six years now. 

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Right now, this is the San Telmo Antiques Fair, which is a fair that happens every Sunday here in San Telmo. 

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And somewhere around 10,000 people come every Sunday, and it's not just tourists. It's locals. 

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It's really pretty amazing, because you have stands that run blocks and blocks and blocks. 

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Sunday in San Telmo is kind of one of the best places to be. I love Plaza Dorrego. 

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You can't really tell right now, because it's filled with all of the stands for the vendors. 

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But, this is, like, one of the plazas where, any time day or night, you have people sitting out, drinking coffee -- overpriced coffee -- 

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but drinking coffee nonetheless, people-watching, watching the tango shows.

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This is La Poesia, which means "the poetry," basically. 

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And this place reopened about two years ago as a bar notable, which basically means it's protected by the government. 

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And it's nice because it's a nice mix of Argentines and a few tourists are starting to find out about it now. 

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So, this is a little bit off the beaten path for San Telmo. We're a good four blocks from Plaza Dorrego, now.

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Alright. So, we're here. This is Rio Alba, my favorite steakhouse in the city.

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So, in Argentina, you know, meat is king. Beef is king. So, this is the famous Argentine parrilla, the barbecue. 

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As you can see, it's all wood burning. You got the wood in here, the hot coals. It's all natural. 

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This restaurant has been here since 1981. And a lot of these waiters have been working here since it's opened. 

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So, 30 years now they've been open. You can tell this place is real old school. 

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And that's really what I like about it so much is that it's so unhip that it's hip.

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We are outside of San Lorenzo de Almagro Stadium. 

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As you can see, not exactly the most touristy neighborhood, but it is well worth the visit, well worth the trek to make it out to the south of Buenos Aires.

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Argentines are very passionate, very creative people, which is why we've, you know, we've bred people like Maradona, Messi. 

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Stars that have... their essence has been creativity. You know, going against the rules, going against the structure. You know, putting a team on their shoulders and carrying them. 

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And you see a lot of that in the style of the play. 

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It's a very much an Argentine thing, as much as the tango or, you know, eating steak, red wine is. Football is part of the identity, who we are.