Express Cuisine:How To Pizza Dough

The Chef's Kitchen Center, Giulietta Colombo, teaches how to make a very simple recipe and saving: pizza dough.

ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 tablespoon instant yeast
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 / 4 cup warm water
1 / 2 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 / 2 cup tomato sauce

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Torres del Paine National Park

The National Park Torres del Paine is one component of the National System of Protected Areas of the State of Chile. In 2006, covered an area of ​​242 242 ha. One of the largest parks in the country and one of the most important. It is the third most visits, of which about 75% are foreign tourists, especially Europeans.

The National Park is located 112 km north of Puerto Natales and 312 of the city of Punta Arenas. It is one of the eleven existing protected areas in the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica (along with four other national parks, three national reserves and three national monuments). Overall, protected areas cover 51% of the surface of the region (6,728,744 ha). Its northern border Glacier National Park in Argentina.

It presents a wide variety of natural environments: mountains (among which the complex of Cerro Paine, whose main peak reaches 3050 meters, Torres del Paine and the Horns of Paine), valleys, rivers (such as Paine River), lakes (known as Grey highlighting, Pehoé, Nordenskjöld and Sarmiento), glaciers (Grey, Pingo, Geikie Tyndall and belonging to the Southern Patagonian Ice Field).  

History 

The park was created on May 13, 1959. In 1977, Guido Monzino donated 12 000 hectares (30 000 acres) to the Government of Chile, and established its definite limits. UNESCO declared it a biosphere reserve on April 28, 1978.

In recent years, the Park has faced several fires caused by humans, who have consumed large areas of vegetation. On February 10, 1985, a Japanese tourist left a bad butt off, sparking a fire that consumed about 14 000 hectares of the park. Twenty years later, a Czech tourist overturned a stove and caused another fire, burning an area of ​​more than 15 000 hectares, of which over 11 000 affected directly to the park. The Czech government paid for 30 000 trees to cooperate with the reforestation of the damaged area. In late 2011, the Torres del Paine National Park was again the victim of a huge forest fire that has consumed 30 December over 11 thousand hectares. The Chilean government has acknowledged the assistance of Argentina in an attempt to contain this latest fire, whose proportions required international support.

Fire has consumed 11,000 hectares in Torres del Paine

The authorities confirmed that the fire affects the national park Torres del Paine, Patagonia, has consumed 11,000 hectares of native forest and shrubs at maintaining the high alert status.Information provided by the director of the National Emergency Office (Onemi), Vicente Núñez, who said that during the day was not possible to fight the flames by air due to bad weather."However, Brigade have been deployed 237 National Forestry Corporation (CONAF), Army, Fire and Argentina, who have supported ground combat," he said to reporters.Nunez confirmed that at noon on Friday was a light rain in the area "but not even served to mitigate the fire." "Notwithstanding the Meteorological Office has informed us that this Saturday and Sunday the winds diminish, which will allow a more frontal attack on the fire," he said.He said that if the forecast holds, the air assets that have come to the area can take action."We worked for more than 550 men as they join the Armed Forces brigade, fire and Argentine experts specialized"Addition will add at least six tank trucks that have come from Aysen and Magallanes from elsewhere, adding 10 additional trucks.The Government requested international assistance on Friday due to the magnitude of the fire that began last Wednesday, which also had to declare "disaster area".At least 700 tourists and employees were dozens were evacuated quickly from the area, declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO, and the extent of the austral summer months some 130,000 visitors, mostly Europeans.In the area inhabited by the Chilean huemul, a little-known native deer, which is part of the national shield, and many species not found anywhere else on the planet and are in danger of extinction for several decades and many native plants .The fire, which would have started last Wednesday, on a trail for hikers, consumes an average of about 2,500 hectares of forest per day, said the president Sebastián Piñera who went to the offices to inquire Onemi details.