Maté is mainstream. There's even an emoji, added to keyboards in 2019. But it's more than just carrying around a gourd and sipping tea. The process of making and drinking maté involves a ritual ...

Served in a hollowed-out gourd called a "mate" and sipped through a metal straw known as a "bombilla," sharing yerba mate is a symbol of friendship and community. The drink is often passed around ...

Here you can eat asado (barbeque) in a five-course dinner, as well as learn how to make empanadas and properly prepare a gourd of mate (a kind of tea) for drinking. Diners sip not only mate ...