From the monthly archives:

April 2006

A Photographic Wander

2006.Apr.21 Friday

Buenos Aires – Today I’m going to more or less post a bunch of photos from my various wanderings over the last week. Much of it is simply buildings that I found interesting, a couple of things I have some things to comment on. In that vein, by pure happenstance, I headed for the Mercado [...]

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Pizza BBQ

2006.Apr.20 Thursday

Buenos Aires – I had a recent exchange with someone on a food forum elsewhere on the net on the subject of Barbecued Pizza in Buenos Aires. Given linguistic differences in different parts of the globe, he had come under the impression, from reading somewhere about the topic (and I don’t know if it was [...]

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A Falafel does not a Gefilte make

2006.Apr.19 Wednesday

Buenos Aires – You probably can’t remember your first falafel. I certainly can’t, but knowing where I grew up, I’m sure it was a greasy ball of over-fried chickpea batter stuffed in some poor excuse for a pita bread, topped with iceberg lettuce and cellophane tomatoes, and doused in some combination of sauces that bore [...]

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Sunday Afternoon on the Docks

2006.Apr.18 Tuesday

Buenos Aires – Met up with my friend Victor and a group of folk he’d gathered together for a bit of a wine tasting on Sunday afternoon. What else is there to do on an Easter Sunday except bite the ears off of a chocolate bunny? And that gets old after a half dozen of [...]

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Beef on the Hoof

2006.Apr.17 Monday

Buenos Aires – If your town has never hosted the Cow Parade, you simply don’t know what you’re missing. Starting seven years ago with events in Chicago and New York, this art and fund-raising event has gone worldwide, having been hosted in a multitude of cities around the globe. This year, Buenos Aires is one [...]

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My First Official Ceviche

2006.Apr.16 Sunday

Buenos Aires – We’re getting closer to the “secret” family recipe. I’ve mentioned before that when Henry makes ceviche he won’t let me watch – you’d think by now I’d be considered family and welcome to the secrets, but such is life. Actually, he doesn’t like it when I watch him cook anything – I’m [...]

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Pasta al Momento

2006.Apr.15 Saturday

Buenos Aires – Let your eyes drift past the faded red awning, the storefront with it’s almost scrubbed off graffiti, the peeling paint on the inside walls, the parts of the ceiling falling to the floor below, the layer of dust atop every bit of decor in the room, and let them light upon the [...]

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My Necropolis is Bigger than Your Necropolis

2006.Apr.14 Friday

Buenos Aires – Cementerio Recoleta may get all the press, it gets the tour buses, it has the surrounding touristy restaurants, the weekend artesanal fair, and, of course, the crowds that flock to gape at Evita’s tomb. It takes up a space roughly two by two city blocks, and it’s conveniently located to everything, including [...]

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Paint By Numbers 4

2006.Apr.14 Friday

Buenos Aires – It’s been awhile since I worked on my Paint By Numbers project – exploring the different date numbered streets of Buenos Aires as a way of seeing new neighborhoods (search on Paint By Numbers for the others). I was headed out towards the Villa Urquiza neighborhood to check out a restaurant I’d [...]

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