I love Anthony Bourdain’s stories of his travels around the world.  Susie and I just purchased our tickets for Susie’s “Birthday Month” in June where we travel from Panama to Santiago, Chile, hop over the Andes to Mendoza, Argentina and on to Buenos Aires.  As we will be next to Montevideo, Uruguay this story inked the deal for a side trip there.

Welcome to the tiny, overlooked but enchanted land of Uruguay, one of my favorite places to visit and easily one of the top underappreciated travel destinations on earth. It has beautiful beaches, breathtaking countryside, and a capital that evokes old Havana or Buenos Aires—but without the crowds.

It is, however, no country for vegetarians.

Everywhere you look, on parrillas (large iron grills)—the prominent cooking method of the region—vast wonderlands of meat and sausages cook slowly over wood coals. Salads are few and far between. Apparently, chicken is considered a vegetable!

Read the entire article and watch his videos.