What's Easter like in Argentina?

Hint: it involves knives and...backlinks! 💥

Mar 28, 2024

Hi everyone,

Last time we touched base was Christmas, when we told you how weird that holiday can get in the heat of summer here in Argentina. 😂

As you might expect, Easter also has it’s own thing going on. Here in the south, the poplars are turning yellow, temperatures are falling (rather than rising), but en consonancia with the north, chocolate eggs are everywhere.

Instead of being one day (Easter Sunday), las fiestas extend from Thursday to Tuesday; most classes are canceled, stores may or may not be open for business, people may or may not respond to messages. Basically, everyone’s out to lunch until next Wednesday.

We imagine Easter in the US or Europe is different in some respects. If you wanted to take advantage of the holiday to go to the gym and work out, for example, too bad (at least here in rural Patagonia). You will instead be offered something involving dried salted cod, which comes in at a close second (after the chocolate Easter egg) for traditional holiday fare. The cod, mixed into soups and stews, appears in a variety of dishes.

The main attraction, notwithstanding, are the chocolate eggs, which are commonly homemade using melted chocolate and plastic molds. Often, there is travel involved for Argentines taking the 5-day holiday (which without much trouble could easily extend itself to 7-10 days, ya que estamos), which will hopefully mean an uptick in tourism here in El Bolsón, where Oskar’s got a few pieces on sale at the local handcrafts market, or feria.

Speaking of knives (how’d you like that segue)…

HAVE YOU SEEN OUR NEW WEBSITE?!?!?!?!?

Even if you have already (good on you), Kristin’s been adding more pages so be like the cool kids and

Check it out

It looks awesome, but looking awesome is not enough on its own in this wild and whacky world. Here’s where we need your help.

👉🏼 Do you have a website, or do you know anyone who does?

Because Kristin will gladly write some

🎉 FREE CONTENT🎉

for it, provided she can link to our new website somewhere in there (it can be subtle). As this email attests, she is quite capable of linking together the most disparate of themes. 😁

Posting blogs or articles on other websites linking to our site is known as “generating backlinks” and greatly boosts one’s ranking on Google.

So…if you have a website we could slip into, please let Kristin know by sending an email to us at forja.patagonia (at) gmail.com 🙏

Speaking of blogs, if you want to learn more about the kinds of knives Oskar makes and their uses, be sure to check out our new blog, where Kristin is posting regularly.

Last but not least, our new website also boasts its own extensive gallery of knives we’ve sold over the years and a store, where you can see all the amazing knives 💯 made by Oskar, including this beauty: