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Buenos Aires – One of the items I was able to pick up yesterday in the Asian grocery was a bag of matsutake mushrooms. If you’re not familiar with these, also known as pine mushrooms, they are amongst the priciest of all fungi. It’s not unusual in the U.S. to see imported Japanese matsutake going [...]

Buenos Aires – Not the pants, but the Chinese. Specifically, the Taiwanese, who settled the eastern part of the Belgrano neighborhood long ago. The area is known as Barrio Chino, or Chinatown. It is predominately a residential area, just north and east of the Belgrano “C” train station, and easy to get to by train, [...]

Buenos Aires – Note: a couple of people e-mailed me to ask for larger pictures… so I’ve upped their size a little bit. By the way – register below right and make comments here – this’ll be more fun if there’s some interaction onsite rather than just in my e-mail box.
It was a stunningly glorious [...]

Buenos Aires – The area I wandered into last night in search of Vietnamese food looked charming, so I thought I’d return during the day. I found myself in SoHo, Palermo SoHo that is, but much the same as the one in New York, this is the current chi-chi name for this section of Palermo [...]

Buenos Aires – Back in the big city and I had this hankering for some spicy food. I’d heard there was a reasonably authentic Vietnamese restaurant in Palermo and set out on the apparent 15 minute walk from home. It turned out closer to half an hour and truly unfortunately has been replaced by a [...]

La Plata – Welcome to the capitol of Buenos Aires! What? I thought Buenos Aires was the capitol you say? Time for a short geography/political lesson. Buenos Aires is the name of one of Argentina’s 23 provinces. La Plata (let’s make that “Silver City”) is the provincial capitol. The “autonomous city of Buenos Aires” was [...]

Our ability to accessorize is what sets us apart from others.
Buenos Aires – If I ever needed verification that I’m living in another culture it was making it to the gym this morning. Porteños, well no, porteñas in particular, are known for their fashion sense. So there I was in my running pants and muscle-t, [...]

Buenos Aires – On waking up I had that delightful leaden feel of having eaten my body weight in cholesterol. Noticing too that I have been adding a few centimeters to my center section, I decided it was time to get back to working out. So I wandered down the block to the gym that’s [...]