21-06-2014
Los Gurises (“the kids” in Spanish), tel. +598.43504745, is a Uruguayan estancia, 180 km from Montevideo. It was founded by Italians Luigi and Eva Olivieri, ex breeders and salespeople. A game reserve and agritourism, it offers lots of home produced delicious products, including beef and pork
Too bad for Mujica, Uruguay’s president, who professes vegetarianism in a country where one can eat the best meat in the world. His is certainly a respectable choice, still, whenever I can, I run away and visit my friends Luigi and Eva Olivieri – the gurises in the homonymous estancia in Sarandì Grande, in the region of Florida, 160 km North of Montevideo – I do so because I cannot resist the lure of the meat. Let’s put dog-hunting aside (in an endless paradise full of partridges, woodcocks, hares, ducks, turtle doves and pigeons) and the way in which Eva – worthily sided by the very faithful Laura – sanctifies game on the table: a triumph of salmì, escabece, stews and gastronomic fantasies that only someone who has a sound background could afford (by the way, here the great chef-hunter Lucio Pompili is a regular and very appreciative client).
There’s also game: such as these splendid Turtle doves with polenta
The two "clients-pork-transformers" at work: in four days they “transformed” 540 kg of pork meat
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Wine and olive oil producer from Noto (Siracusa), he’s a hunter, fisherman, smoker and loves swimming, reading, travelling, eating fine food and drinking even better wine