From the monthly archives:

February 2006

Let Them Eat Lomo!

2006.Feb.09 Thursday

Buenos Aires – Spittin’ images, as they say. Walter Matthau was easy to pick out, right out of Grumpy Old Men. The other one, I keep wracking my brain and going between Buddy Hackett, a plumped up Phil Silvers, a plumped up Milton Berle, or Jonathan Winters if he looked more like the other three. [...]

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Tag, Your It

2006.Feb.08 Wednesday

Buenos Aires – Tag was one of my favorite games when growing up. I’m not sure if we ever knew “the rules” of the game. I’m not even sure if there are any. We just used to run around a lot, chasing after each other, and shrieking “Tag, Your It!” at the top of our [...]

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Fèlix, Félicité, Feliz

2006.Feb.07 Tuesday

Buenos Aires – Happy and productive, and Felix wouldn’t want it any other way. This is Felix of La Olla de Felix, Juncal 1693, in Barrio Norte, a 30-some seat French bistro that he has been running for just over a decade. Rumor has it he was the former lauded chef of the Ritz hotel [...]

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Holy Food!

2006.Feb.07 Tuesday

In the year 301 our village was the first to adopt Christianity. Today, here at El Manto [the cloak], we breathe the mysticism and the secrets of those first flavors, with dishes secretly passed from generation to generation. Our authentic Armenian recipes are changed each season by the hard work of Armenian women. Our cuisine [...]

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Home Visits

2006.Feb.06 Monday

Buenos Aires – It’s my own fault. I admit it. Back before I left New York, in conversations with friends, I said things like “I miss how friends used to drop by my place back home to do things. We didn’t spend hours arranging hanging out, via SMS or e-mail or telephone.” Of course, we [...]

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Spooning

2006.Feb.05 Sunday

Buenos Aires – If you’re in the food world, especially in the restaurant end of it, you tend to hear murmurs about this chef or that in that world. The murmurs are usually in the line of “I had the most amazing…” or “X may not be famous, but he’s the best…”. Falling into that [...]

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My Favorite Chowder

2006.Feb.04 Saturday

Buenos Aires – Back in 1991 I was attending Peter Kump’s Cooking School in New York, making some vague attempt at refining the cooking skills I’d learned from my mother and, separately, from “Papa John” Falsetta (that’s another whole story). I don’t remember the genesis of the idea, I think it was a conversation between [...]

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Esperando La Carroza

2006.Feb.03 Friday

Buenos Aires – Quite simply, look for this film. Esperando La Carroza (a double entendre that could mean “Waiting for the Hearse” or in this case “Waiting for the Old Bat” to use the English vernacular) is a hysterically funny Argentine film from 1985. The basic premise is three brothers and their wives fighting over [...]

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Paint By Numbers 3

2006.Feb.03 Friday

Buenos Aires – I set out yesterday, late morning, with three objectives in mind. The first, to explore the wholesale cooking supplies neighborhood along the southern end of Av. Jujuy; the second, to continue my Paint By Numbers project with a wander down one of two streets that fit my theme in that area; and [...]

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