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You know when you're slightly hungry but really not sure what you want to eat and would love a little variety plate to nibble on? Enter La Picada . I'm relying a lot on Google and Wikipedia to help me explain these new dishes to the masses (by masses I mean my handful of readers.  Thank you, readers), so according to Wikipedia a picada is a Colombian dish with various meats that are usually fried  and accompanied by yucca and plantain and maybe potato. I know a picada to be essentially a meat and cheese platter in Argentina with olives and maybe some other antipasti type accouterments that are not fried.  The name picada  comes from the verb picar  which means to sting, to bite, to nibble on . During my week in Buenos Aires, I dined on many picadas and always loved how satisfying it was to have many different options in front of me. My favorite picada was at El Nono Amigo   AlmacĂ©n .  This small neighborhood restaurant has ample outdoor...