From the monthly archives:

October 2005

At the Copa, Copacabana…

2005.Oct.10 Monday

Buenos Aires – Once again pointing up that plays on words don’t work cross-language was my attempt at a joke about there not being any virgins at the Copacabana. I didn’t say it aloud, as heading to the Bolivian community’s Festival of the Virgin of Copacabana, in Barrio Flores, had the air of something serious [...]

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There’s a Pea under my Mattress

2005.Oct.09 Sunday

Buenos Aires – We’re coming down to the wire on buying our new apartment, so things have been a little hectic. Meetings and phone calls with the real estate agent, the escribano (notary/title preparer), working out transfering funds halfway across the world (you’d think in the day and age of the internet and easy global [...]

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A Bit o’ Bubbly

2005.Oct.07 Friday

Buenos Aires – Shared a bottle of wine and a bite to eat with Andres Rosberg, the new president of the sommelier association here in Argentina. Future projects in the offing. We dropped by a small wine shop he knows that offers the opportunity to taste wine by the glass or bottle, accompanied by casual [...]

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Baking Celery

2005.Oct.06 Thursday

Buenos Aires – Celery is one of those much maligned vegetables. You know the type – okra, avocados, lima beans. You wouldn’t think it would fall into that category, but stop and think about it – other than that ubiquitous staple of the buffet, the “celery stick,” or maybe mixed into a salad, when was [...]

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Ode to Spring Peas

2005.Oct.04 Tuesday

Buenos Aires – I’d like to wax poetic over the first arrival of fresh green peas in my local market. My poetic talents, even if I’ve had a glass or two of wine, run towards Mary had a little lamb or limericks about gefilte fish. I’d wax prosaic, which is more in line with my [...]

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Mock Abalone?

2005.Oct.02 Sunday

Buenos Aires – Picked up some beautiful oyster mushrooms in chinatown the other day. Decided to just do a search for an interesting recipe on the internet and found a great site with all sorts of mushroom recipes. What caught my eye was a recipe for Mock Abalone. I had all the ingredients except one [...]

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Walkabout

2005.Oct.02 Sunday

Buenos Aires – Spent the weekend out wandering around. It has been the first weekend of truly spring weather, no jackets required, gorgeous. Saturday I headed out along one of the major streets, Córdoba, heading west out to Parque Centenario, one of the city’s prettier parks. Unfortunately, on arrival, turned out the entire park is [...]

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Kung Pao Revisited

2005.Oct.01 Saturday

Buenos Aires – Sometimes you look in the refrigerator and realize you have all the ingredients to make something fun. You’re not quite sure how they all got there. You picked up a couple of peppers at the market one day and stuck them in the vegetable drawer. There’s leftover celery from making celery sauce [...]

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