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Preparation:

The ingredients consist of shellfish..

Curanto

… meat, potatoes, potato bread, chapaleles, and vegetables (sometimes including also specific types of fish). The quantities are not fixed; the idea is that there should be a little of everything. Each layer of ingredients is covered with nalca (Chilean rhubarb) leaves, or in their absence, with fig leaves or white cabbage leaves. All this is covered with champas[clarification needed] and wet sacks, creating the effect of a giant pressure cooker in which the food cooks for approximately one hour.

Curanto can also be prepared in a large stew pot that is heated over a bonfire or grill or in a pressure cooker. This stewed curanto is called pulmay in the central region of Chile.

“Soy guía de caminatas por las montañas y la Patagonia” le respondí mientras cebaba un nuevo mate

“Mire, usted no sabe nada y solamente ha vivido en sueños y de sus sueños” comenzó; “¿vé aquellas montañas, se fija en squella mayor, coronada por nieve inmaculada; qué piensa de ella?” mirándome a los ojos desapacionadamente preguntó.

“Bueno, es el San Valentín y pertenece al cordón de Las Pavas. Se ubica en el Campo de Hielo Norte y me preparo para ascenderlo en una temporada más“, respondí

El arriero me mira en silencio de arriba abajo, luego clava sus ojos en los míos y con una mirada recorre mi interior sin yo poder evitarlo.

“Era estudioso en la escuela, ¿eh?” señala para continuar, “esa montaña que está ahí no responde a nombre alguno. Llámela como usted quiera, pero ella es ella y usted no la puede subir como si fuera a una fiesta”

Monte San Valentin

” Eso está claro. Las condiciones climáticas y la carencia de mapas adecuados me hacen tomar todas las precauciones del caso. Sin ambargo cuento con mi equipo adecuado y también con un GPS que me permitirá estar ubicado en todo momento” me defendí.

” Usted vé esa montaña y sus blanquecinas y radiantes nieves, pero no sabe el camino “, señaló ” para subir a las montañas no se requiere de ese equipaje que señala ni de aparatos que no sirven para nada y que le mantienen en la más absoluta ignorancia de todo “

“La montaña está allí, ni ella ni sus mapas y su tecnología le enseñarán el camino. El camino hacia ella lo alcanzará siguiendo a su corazón, éste no falla ni se equivoca“

“Cuando usted viene a Patagonia se sumerje en el paisaje y en la Naturaleza. Sus evocaciones y sus sueños debe usted vivirlos así como vive la sensación del espacio.. No mire solamente lo que está explícitamente ante usted. Observe también lo que las formas encierran y qué es lo que le están señalando. Mire el paisaje tanto con sus ojos físicos así como con el ojo de su corazón“, continuó, “luego talvez usted pueda guiar o dejar este trabajo, porque por ahora es un ciego guiando a ciegos”, remató

Chilean Miners

MENSAJE DE LOS MINEROS QUE VENIA EN LA SONDA

The most important is that they are ALIVE

The history and essence of this land comes alive in Frutillar where the german colonists assumed the challenge to populate and develop one of the most beautiful areas in Chile, considering it as their  mew homeland . The Colonial German Museum is a place to know heritage of X region in its pure state and the cultural influence of mid XIX century.

Frutillar has a single identity that joints its roots from an inhospitable territory tamed by settlers; everything is reflected it in its gastronomy that mixed the recipes of the old continent with the fruits found in this land. The flavors had gone beyond from one generation and other. Today Frutillar is much more than germana flavors; Some other delights are actually given by the new chilean cuisine and the scents, colors and flavors of the traditional english tea.

Only one place in Chile joins art and nature like a symphony developed in the Llanquihue Lake and played by Osorno volcano.

Museo Colonial Aleman invites you to discover this wonderful place call Frutillar.

E- mail: infomuseofrutillar@uach.cl

Telephone: 56 – 065 – 421142

Web site: www.museosaustral.cl

The German Colonial Museum of Frutillar promotes the valuation of the natural and cultural heritage that encircles the lake Llanquihue and particularly the History of the German Colonization in the south of Chile, Which started during the second half of the XIX century. The Museum makes parts of the Museological Directions of the Universidad Austral de Chile, an institution recognized by its contribution to the preservation and appreciation of the regional. The Museum opened the year 1984 and it counted with the support of the German Federal Republic.

Its attractive emplacement extends itself through three hectares and within them a recreation of the different types of buildings that may be found by the lake basin and the exhibition of the lifestyle of the local inhabitants.

In the interior of the emplacement the Casona de Campo may be visited, this recreates the rooms used the German families which reached the best comforts at the end of the XIXth century. The Blacksmith house shows the fundamental role of the trades, while the belfry shows the place for the threshing or of the grain storage, a building of Spanish influences with indigenous technical principles which, also reveals, the link with a the labor force that came from the Chiloe.

The Casa Del Molino (Mill House) reproduces the infrastructure installed for the grain processing, especially wheat. In its inside, a summary of the human settlement process since the archaeological period and Indigenous populations until the European influence of the XIX century, are in exhibit.