The Meal of the moment: Havanna Alfajores

Condé Nast Traveler offices, April 12, 2010, 1:30 p.m.
Photo: Ferran Moreno Lanza / CC BY 2.0

What is Moveable Feast having for lunch today? A crumbly, gooey, chocolate-dipped, fantastic mess of an Argentine cookie called an alfajor. Our choice: Havanna brand (we admit, partly for the metallic packaging), next to impossible to find in the States, but worth the search for its layered textures. Your teeth break through the semi-hard chocolate shell, then your tongue fills with lumps of sugary dough, and then, finally, the caramel seals it all into your mouth, so you can close your jaw and mix the three together with every chomp. Lucky Texans can score a box at Central Markets from May 15-25, when the stores will celebrate Argentina's bicentennial by selling Quilmes beer, flaky empanadas drizzled with chimichurri, and, of course, alfajores. For those who aren't within driving distance of a Central Market, you can order alfajores through Foodzie, our favorite online artisanal marketplace.