From the monthly archives:

March 2006

Selection of Pasta

2006.Mar.07 Tuesday

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 [...]

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Argentina hits The Big Apple?

2006.Mar.06 Monday

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 [...]

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Beware…

2006.Mar.06 Monday

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, [...]

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Fancied up Parrilla

2006.Mar.05 Sunday

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 [...]

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On Blogging and Modern Art

2006.Mar.03 Friday

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 [...]

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Llajwa – Weekend Herb Blogging

2006.Mar.02 Thursday

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 [...]

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Zona Boliviana

2006.Mar.02 Thursday

Liniers – We’re still getting ready for the upcoming fiesta, Henry’s niece’s 15th birthday. It’s starting to involve lots of things with glitter and shiny blue and silver stuff, and not that I don’t like that sort of thing, occasionally I see the need to rein it in a little – Henry had covered the [...]

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Here’s a Tip – Service

2006.Mar.01 Wednesday

Buenos Aires – It’s not often that I don’t tip a waiter. I worked for too many years in the restaurant world in the U.S. and I know what waiters go through, and I know it’s how they make their living. Even here, in a country where they’re paid a “living wage” and tipping is [...]

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Stir-Fry of Various and Sundry

2006.Mar.01 Wednesday

Buenos Aires – Whew! One last posting involving Uruguay for the moment, and then on to a couple of new Chinese restaurants, just for something different. The photo, by the way, was sent to me this morning by Ana Pizzorno, it’s me and Carlos Pizzorno tasting through their wines. I get asked regularly what going [...]

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