From the monthly archives:

June 2006

The Butterfly Effect

2006.Jun.30 Friday

Buenos Aires – This is the starting point of a meme. Since starting blogging over a year ago I’ve wanted to start a meme. I participated in a few, but have never actually been “tagged” for one, only picking them up either on my own or when someone tags “anyone who reads this”. For those [...]

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A Quiet Space for Dinner

2006.Jun.29 Thursday

Buenos Aires – The most surprising thing about our Casa SaltShaker venture isn’t that people have been coming and enjoying, much as the speed of word of mouth did catch me off guard. Instead, it’s been the idea of having a private dinner somewhere. There seem to be a large number of people, either visitors [...]

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A Couple of Cold Weather Dishes

2006.Jun.26 Monday

Buenos Aires – With most of the weekend pouring and/or drizzling rain, we spent a fair amount of it indoors. It’s clearly moving into the type of weather for nice hearty pastas, stews, and soups, so I’ll be experimenting more with those. With half a head of cauliflower left from the other day’s Kuku, I [...]

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Dinner and a Show

2006.Jun.25 Sunday

Buenos Aires – This is what would happen if you somehow managed to combine Dinah Shore and Rosemary Clooney. Then give the resulting being a small, bookstore-ish venue on The Love Boat. Voila! Donna Caroll. Does that sound like a horrible scenario? It wasn’t. In fact, it was a delightful evening, something completely different from [...]

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The Great Lobster Controversy

2006.Jun.24 Saturday

Buenos Aires – It’s been the talk of the food blogosphere and news writers for the last week. Whole Foods Market announced on June 16th that they were going to stop selling live lobsters (and crabs). Various emphases are mine… “Although we discovered significant improvements are possible from capture up to in-store tank conditions, we [...]

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Cuckoo for Cauliflower

2006.Jun.23 Friday

Buenos Aires – I love cauliflower, and I love finding new and interesting ways to serve it. I don’t know what it is about the vegetable, but it’s one of my favorites. Has been ever since Birdseye Cauliflower in Cheddar Cheese Sauce boil-in-the-bags. My tastes have changed over time, and I know tend to prefer [...]

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Gracias for an Amazing Year!

2006.Jun.21 Wednesday

New York – I wanted to keep this a separate post from this morning’s roundup and farewell to New York. This is, simply, a thank you to all of you who have made blogging this past year rewarding and enjoyable. It feels like I’ve been blogging far longer than a year, but there it is [...]

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Farewell (Again) 212

2006.Jun.21 Wednesday

New York – It has been a whirlwind of activity the last two weeks here, and now it draws to an end. The SuperShuttle will be here in a few hours to whisk me away to the airport, and it’s off to home, hearth, and Henry. The first time I came back for a visit, [...]

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How Green was My Garlic?

2006.Jun.20 Tuesday

New York – It’s the time here for the early versions of many vegetables. Those of you who were paying attention, or even reading my blog, last week, know I was a bit enamored of a large bunch of green garlic that I picked up at the Greenmarket. By this week, the green garlic was [...]

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