June 14, 2009. We went to Ichiban Restaurant for lunch, which was to be our final meal of this wonderful trip.
June 14, 2009. After our stop at Jumbo, we took a cab to Centro Artesanal de los Dominicos. It's housed on the grounds of a Dominican church. Local and regional artists and crafts dealers sell their wares on the very rustic grounds. After logging over 1000 miles in 7 days on a very tight pace, it was so nice to just casually browse the marketplace and pick up a few trinkets.
June 14, 2009. After a good rest back at the Grand Hyatt in Santiago, we went to see Jumbo.
June 13, 2009. We arrived back to Santaigo around 10 pm. after a 2 1/2 hour drive from the Maule Region. Darrell had a hankering for pigs feet, so we returned to Raul Correa & Family restaurant. It was a bit odd having dinner at 10:45 pm, but I chalked it up as the start of our adjustment to returning home, since we were leaving tomorrow. After all it was only 7:45 pm in California. Of course there were Pisco Sours, and Esther finally got her taste of the pigs feet.
June 13, 2009. We drove up to the olive orchards of Olivares de Quepu, just up the hills outside of the Maule region's main town of Talca. Alvaro Cortese showed us around and told us of their operation. http://www.olivaresdequepu.cl/blog/?language=en
June 13, 2009. We were served Ceviche of Fillet of Sole and had a few wines with lunch at Toro Bayo. Darrell explains sole, and makes a very interesting comment about the naming of red wine. Darrell truly is the Jacques Cousteau of Food and Wine. Like Jacques. who was the sage of sages in the Oceans of our world, so to is Darrell the sage of sages in the world of food and wine.
We were invited to taste the just bottled 2009 harvest of Olivares de Quepu olive oils at the Toro Bayo restaurant in Talca by Alvaro Cortese. After the tasting we were served an amazing seafood lunch.
Pisco Sour anyone? 
