From the monthly archives:

March 2006

Some Notes on Wine

2006.Mar.16 Thursday

Buenos Aires – Dereck Foster is the wine and food writer for The Buenos Aires Herald, the major local English language paper. In general, I enjoy reading his columns, especially when he waxes eloquent about meals savored in the past, restaurants of bygone eras, and the glories of food and wine. He’s published a lovely [...]

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Deli de Segunda Avenida?

2006.Mar.16 Thursday

Buenos Aires – Note the elegant structure. The form of a ring. A small, slightly deformed hole in the center. A hint of a sheen from the crust, just barely visible on the side. Lovely toasty grill marks. To one side, a small cup, brimming with a creamy, paste-like substance. The plate is placed carefully [...]

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The Red House and Grey Potatoes

2006.Mar.15 Wednesday

Buenos Aires – Barrio Norte already has the reputation of being an in, trendy spot for ex-pats, bordering on the yuppie style at times. In fact, that’s how it ended up with a separate moniker from the rest of Recoleta – in, trendy spots need their own names. It’s the same thing behind parts of [...]

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Indigenous? Native? To Where?

2006.Mar.14 Tuesday

Buenos Aires – Last night found us headed off to San Telmo to meet up with a friend in visiting from Paris. He gets a three week vacation. Twice a year. If I’d have had that at any job in my work history, I’d have probably stayed wherever that was! We actually met him at [...]

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Lost in Translation

2006.Mar.13 Monday

Planet Earth – Those of you who’ve read along know I have a pet peeve when it comes to menu translations. If you’re going to go to the effort to translate your menu into another language, have someone who speaks both do the translation. I didn’t personally encounter either of these, though after fits of [...]

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Fiesta! Feliz Cumpleaño Viviana!

2006.Mar.12 Sunday

La Plata – Last night is a bit muzzy. I always wanted to use that word. After weeks and weeks of planning, Henry’s niece’s 15th cumpleaño finally came off with no more than the usual Latin American hitches. I should be used to the speed at which things get done and the nonchalance about timing, [...]

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Back on the Empanada Trail

2006.Mar.11 Saturday

Buenos Aires – Not that I’ve ever stopped trying empanadas, since they are fast replacing pizza in my mind as Nature’s Most Perfect Food, but this week has been a whirlwind of empanadas. Mostly we just needed snack food as we prepared for tonight’s fiesta. Two in particular stood out over the various pockets of [...]

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Offal: Chinchulines, Mollejas, Corazon and Other Delights…

2006.Mar.10 Friday

Buenos Aires – This piece went up this morning over on What’s Up Buenos Aires? and is merely reproduced here with one spelling correction in the title. It's a shame that the words offal and awful are virtual homonyms in the English language. It immediately gives some leverage to the folks who fall into the [...]

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A Little Chicken Dinner…

2006.Mar.09 Thursday

Buenos Aires – Set your “way back machine” to May 28, 1994. Way back there in the 20th Century. I had just left a job as sous chef, churning out good, but simple cajun/creole food at The Sazerac House in New York. It had been a fun gig, but not one in which there was [...]

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