SaltShaker

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 camp [...]

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 [...]

Buenos Aires - Not just flowers and leaves, but finally our garden has decided to give forth in the world of vegetables. Our first pepper has finally reached maturity and is nearly ready to be picked and made into something. It’s a banana pepper, so not picante, so perhaps sliced into a salad. Perhaps sauteed [...]

Buenos Aires - To my New York friends, I look forward to reports on the new “Buenos Aires” restaurant in the East Village. The meat, obviously, will have to be different, as I don’t believe Argentine beef is brought into the U.S., at least not in any quantity. This report from Andrea Strong over at [...]

Buenos Aires - There is no proverb that goes “Beware three wise men bearing gifts.” It’s one of those lines that lives, in one form or another similar to that, somewhere in our, or at least my, hindbrain. Not that it’s the last time that three wise men showed up anywhere with gifts in hand, [...]

Buenos Aires - Friday, we spent most of the day indoors - the heavens were pouring rain, and we thought my friend Bill was arriving to spend part of his vacation with us (turned out it was 11:30 at night, not in the morning) - so when the rain finally died down, we were ready [...]

Buenos Aires - You’d think with all the time I spend exploring and writing I wouldn’t have time to read anything, but it just ain’t so. A lot of my reading gets done while sitting on colectivos rocketing around the city, much of it while having coffee or over lunch (only, of course, when I’m [...]

Buenos Aires - Salsa Llajwa is sometimes known as the Bolivian National Hot Sauce. I first encountered it at a restaurant in Palermo, and it was so delicious that I’d asked the manager of the restaurant what was in it. He described it as containing the Peruvian herb huacatay and the Bolivian herb quirquiña, blended [...]