Residence of the Ambassador of Chile in the US was transformed into market by one night

The elegant Massachusetts Ave. residence of the Chilean Ambassador to the United States, Mariano Fernández, became a popular Chilean market. Named “Chilean Food Market”, it was created with great imagination to showcase the enormous variety of foods and drinks (wines, exotics fruits juice, and pisco among them) that Chile produce to be exported to the US.

The evening was attended by representatives of the main import and distributing companies of the US, as of the supermarkets of the Washington Metropolitan Area and prestigious journalists specialized in gastronomy and wines.

Aside from promoting consolidated wines, fruits (among them avocados), salmon, and olive oil, the “Chilean Food Market” showcased products that have entered the American market very recently. Among them, the carica (Chilean papaya), the pisco, the merquén (smoked smashed chili prepared by the natives Mapuches), the pulp of lúcuma (completely unknown in the US), the raspberries and chirimoyas, the southern organic lamb, pork and bovine meat, cheeses, and sea products like Chilean abalones, prawns, shrimps, mussels, sea urchins, scallops, king crabs, among others.

Chilean producers also attended this sample to  explain the characteristics and culinary kindness of each one of their products and how they possible can be acquired.

Next, the guests tasted a dinner prepared with these same ingredients by Guillermo Rodríguez, the Chilean chef which is also President of the group of chefs "Les Toches Blanches".  

This original activity to support the Chilean exporters was an initiative of the economic team of ProChile in Washington, altogether with the Agricultural Office, led by Ambassador Mariano Fernandez.

Photographer: Regina Azevedo

Eduardo Santos, Agriculture Attache at the Embassy of Chile, Chilean chef Guillermo

Rodríguez, Ambassador Mariano Fernández,  Marta Bonet, from the Chilean Embassy

economic team, and suchef Axel Manríquez.

Fruits                                                                                                               Seafood

Chilean Merquén                                               Ambassador Fernández, Ann Geracimos (Washington Times), and chef Rodríguez.

 Haras de Pirque Wines                                      Cultural Attache Cristian Campos and Falernia wines.

...and Pisco Sour

Pork.....

Laurie Bryan de la Asociación Americana de Importadores de Carne,

Andrea Lagos, agregada de prensa, y Rolando Ortega, agregado

económico de la Embajada.

Ana Maria Friedl from Whole Foods, Jose Miguel Cuevas,

Chilean olive oil exporter and Inken Hoepner, journalist

of the Maryland Washington Beverage Journal.

Jorge Santos, seafood exporter, Leigh Lambert, "The Washington Post"

(Food) journalist, and Raimundo Costa, Chilean seafood exporter

Seafood                                                            Pork and Carica                                               Beef with Chilean Goat Cheese

Lamb & merquen                                             Lucuma, carica, berries