Archive for August 30th, 2005

Shark!

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Buenos Aires - No, not another adventure like last week’s cyclone. I was around the corner yesterday at the fish market looking for something that looked good for dinner. I’m still not up on all my local names for fish (though I just found this great site for them), so I tend to pick by [...]

A Bunch of Dried Leaves

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Buenos Aires - I’ve resisted talking about mate (pronounced mah-tey; the name in total - yerba mate) for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, if you’d have asked me not too long ago, I would have told you it tastes like badly brewed insipid green tea. Second, it’s a complicated topic here in Argentina [...]