The election is over. We have all learned the platforms and patience of all our friends & family with social media rants and posts.  We have discuss, argued and have used political satire and GIF’s. A few things became apparent, the importance of the women voter and of the Hispanic/Latino community.

Argentina is the world's fifth largest wine producer, after Italy, France, Spain and the US. It is best known for it's red Malbec grape variety, which was introduced to the country by Spanish Conquistadors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and which is traditionally grown in the Mendoza region, in the foothills of the Andes mountains, in some cases still using irrigation systems that the Spaniards inherited from local indigenous tribes. There are literally hundreds, perhaps thousands, of vineyards in Mendoza, ranging from giant, international exporters, to those that in the past provided wine for just one house or family. With its sycamore-lined avenues, and the high peaks of the Andes range serving as a picturesque backdrop to most of the region, a wine-lover could happily spend months exploring Mendoza's vineyards, ambling lazily from tasting to tasting. If you can't spare that much time though, a few days is enough to begin to get to know the place.

Once again the popular international food festival, known as "Taste Santo Domingo 2012," will be hosted this year in October as it celebrates its fifth edition in the Dominican Republic's capital city.

They mixed their own diet of rice, pork, beef, garlic and onions with the native food of pre Columbian Mexico which included maize, chocolate, vanilla, fruits such as guava, avocado and pineapple and some meats and local varieties of fish.

The traditional staple grain is corn but now, rice is as prominent and Mexico has a rice harvest in abundance. As per Karen Hursh Graber, a renowned food writer, the first introduction of rice from North Africa to Spain in the fourth century resulted in the influx of rice from Spain to Mexico from the Veracruz port in the early 16th century. Graber claims that this was among the first instances of fusion of the best cuisines of the world.