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Buenos Aires - In one of those rare moments of prescience in my life, I’ve apparently joined, a day in advance, with a food blogging political cause that is zipping around the blogosphere. I received my first notice of the impending wave when I got my weekly e-mail from The Strong Buzz, where Andrea Strong [...]

Buenos Aires - Cinnamon is the bark of a tropical evergreen tree - related to the laurel, or bay tree. There are two main types - Ceylon, more properly these days I suppose it ought to be called Sri Lankan (Cortex Cinnamoni), but then we haven’t changed the name of the tea either; and Chinese, [...]

Buenos Aires - “Where do you wanna eat?”
“I dunno. Where do you wanna eat?”
“I dunno. Where do you wanna eat?”
“I don’t really care.”
“I don’t either.”
“Me neither.”
Believe me, this witty repartee sounds just as stupid in Spanish. I’d started out the other evening with the best of intentions - it was Henry’s sister Sylvia’s birthday - [...]

Buenos Aires - Yes indeedy folks, it’s John Frum Day. Forget Valentine’s Day yesterday - the chocolates are eaten, the flowers are wilting, those hopeful “Will You Be My Valentine?” cards are already slated for the circular file. Ignore, if you will, that today is National Gum Drop Day, Candlemas, and Lupercalia all rolled into [...]

Buenos Aires - These are mollejas, or as we know them in English, sweetbreads. Let’s face it, if a restaurant said, “hey, how about a nice plate of grilled pancreas?” they couldn’t give the things away. But then they might not have to, they could just as easily be trying to sell you on a [...]

Buenos Aires - Happy Anniversary to Us!
Not the blog, but Henry and I. We met February 12, 2005. We had a bit of a whirlwind romance for the two weeks I was in Buenos Aires after meeting, followed by daily instant messaging chats and at least weekly phone calls. When I first set out on [...]

Buenos Aires - I’ve heard from folks already who just plain think I’m wrong about MALBA and its collection of modern art, in my last post. As I said, there are clearly people out there who like what’s there, or the museum wouldn’t be in business. One thing I forgot to point out, and as [...]

Buenos Aires - I keep wanting to visit the Municipal Museum, but somehow or other it always seems to be closed when I go that direction. Yesterday I was informed that it would be closed until mid-March. For whatever reason, its cafeteria is open, but nothing on the menu looked interesting. Then again, museum cafeterias [...]