From the monthly archives:

April 2006

Aye, There’s the Rub

2006.Apr.13 Thursday

Buenos Aires – I love rubbing meat. So do a lot of people, and more than one has come up with a tasty rub worth copying. And, recently, I copied. More or less. I spotted a recipe for a Kona coffee rubbed pork chop made by Chef Christopher Ennis at the Vibrato Grill Jazz… etc., [...]

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Top Chef #5

2006.Apr.11 Tuesday

Buenos Aires – Continuing on last week’s post on the new reality series Top Chef, with episode #5, Blind Confusion – a headlong jump into the world of exotic flavors. First, the quickfire challenge – a blindfolded attempt to identify twenty different offbeat ingredients, most of them Asian. Surprisingly, my fave Asian contestant, Lee Anne, [...]

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White, Brown, Black… Sushi and Jazz

2006.Apr.11 Tuesday

Buenos Aires – The grapevine buzzes every now and again with a hint that some of the best sushi to be found in Buenos Aires is at a hip little club called Rubia y Morena, the blond and the brunette. I’m not sure if it’s just one of those things where someone got the name [...]

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Around the World

2006.Apr.10 Monday

Buenos Aires – I have mentioned before the world of memes, those lovely series of questions that get passed around from blogger to blogger. One of my regular readers has “tagged” anyone who wants to participate in the Around the World food blogging meme, and since I was exhausted after Saturday’s dinner and yesterday’s post [...]

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El Día Mundial de los Romanís

2006.Apr.09 Sunday

Buenos Aires – I’ve mentioned a few times my old dinner group that used to get together once a month for the Second Sunday Supper Circle, generally on, not surprisingly, the second sunday of the month. The alliteration doesn’t work in castellano, and besides, I no longer am working every saturday of my life, so, [...]

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The Sushi Vault

2006.Apr.08 Saturday

Buenos Aires – He rang the bell and more or less whispered “sushi” into the microphone. Standing on the sidewalk, head shaved, dressed in a bulky navy blue flak vest, black pantalones tucked into mid-calf high jackboots, he looked for all the world like a commando ready for a raid. Wordlessly he handed me a [...]

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Detox Daydreams

2006.Apr.07 Friday

Buenos Aires – Yesterday was just one of those days – the whole day was oriented around the topic of healthy food. I don’t know why, it just sort of all happened at once. And, it’s probably a good thing to have a day like that now and again. It started off with lunch – [...]

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From Lukshin to Lasagna

2006.Apr.06 Thursday

Buenos Aires – While it is traditionally believed that lasagna originated in Italy, there are claims that it came from a very similar dish called loseyns (pronounced lasan) that was being eaten in the court of King Richard II (England) during the 14th Century. This is disputed by the Italians, and for good reason – [...]

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Top What?

2006.Apr.05 Wednesday

Buenos Aires – I hesitate to even post on the subject of Bravo’s new “reality show” Top Chef. Having no real history with watching reality shows, other than occasionally having caught part of an episode of that round the world race one, I’m not sure where to begin. We can start with, no surprise, that [...]

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