https://vo.rs/tags/argentine/Latest from the Argentine desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Wed, 21 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/story/locro-argentinas-hearty-corn-and-squash-stew/<p>Every 25th of May and 9th of July, the two dates on which Argentina remembers throwing off Spanish rule, the country cooks the same thing. Pots the size of dustbins appear on street corners, in <em>peñas</em> and union halls and family kitchens, and they fill with locro: a thick, pale-gold stew of hominy corn, beans, squash and whatever cuts of pork and beef the household can muster. It is patriotic food in the most literal sense, eaten to mark the nation&rsquo;s birth, and its lineage runs back long before Spain arrived, to the Andean peoples who were simmering maize and squash in these highlands centuries before anyone drew a border.</p>Wed, 21 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000