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=Food and Cuisine Customs =

= __ Food and Cuisine Customs __ = =__ Meal Hours __= ==== In Chile, they have four meals a day. Chileans start the day with a light breakfast. The lunch, the main meal of the day, is between one and three PM. Then between five and seven they take onces (afternoon tea). And then they finish the day with dinner, rarely earlier then nine PM and lasts past midnight. [I] ====

**__ Typical Dishes __**
==== Common traditional dishes include; cazuela, which is clear broth with rice, potato, corn on the cob and beef or chicken, pastel de cholco, which is a mix of chicken, beef, and vegetables in a corn casserole [II], pastel de choclo is usually served with ensalada chilena (Chilean salad). [III],bistec a lo pobre, which is steak topped with two fried eggs and fried onions and French fries on the side [III], and finally tomatican, which is tomato and corn stew served with meat, chicken, or fish [III]. Some more dishes are empanada de pino, empanada de queso, carbonada, chancho en piedra, charquican, costillar de chancho, humitas, palta reina, parrillada, pebre, pernil, porotos granados, and sopaipalla. [IV] ====

**__Chilean Seafood Dishes__**
==== Most traditional dishes are specialties are seafood. The delicacies of the sea are mariscos (shellfish) and centolla (king crab). [II]. Other seafood dishes are almejas con limon, caldillo de cingrio, ceviche, congrito frito, chupe de locos, mariscal, ostiones a la parmesana, and machas a las parmesana. [IV ==== ]

The snacks Chileans eat include; pan amasado, which is heavy bread [II] and empanadas, which are little pies stuffed with beef, olives, and onions [III].
==== [I] __ [|http://www.chipsites.com/ww/food-dining-meal-hours-in-chile.html __ [II] http://www.cookbookwiki.com/Chilian_Cuisine#Cuisines_of_Chile [III] __ http://www.foodbycountry.com/Algeria-to-France/Chile.html  [IV] [|http://www.southamerica.cl/Chile/Food.htm __  ====  Click here to view a few different Chilean wines.

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