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“I don’t do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
- Patrick Stewart, Actor
Buenos Aires - Brown, black, white, [...]

“Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
- Maurice de Vlaminck, French Artist, On Painting
Buenos Aires - I’ve noted before that Henry can be a bit secretive about his family’s home cooking and Peruvian dishes in general. I’ve still never been able to get a straight answer about why, though [...]

“If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
- Diana Wynne Jones, author, in an interview with Judith [...]

“The chain letter is the cockroach of communication, an unwanted visitor that interrupts our routine with a strange voodoo incantation, promising luck and threatening misfortune. But for some reason, we pass this parasite on to the future, happy to see it go, little thinking that we are really only mailing it back to ourselves.”
- John [...]

“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”
- James Beard, Beard on Food, 1974
Buenos Aires - No, I’m not switching to political commentary. At least not really. Anyone with access to world media knows there’s a conflict, a fight, a war, going on in the Middle East, and specifically at the moment, the hotspot is [...]

 And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!”
- Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche, an allusion to the Latin adage “de gustibus non est disputandum” or “there is no disputing about tastes”
Buenos Aires - A few months ago [...]

“And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt Argentina(?) all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.”
- Exodus 9:25
Buenos Aires - According to the official news reports, 14 people were injured, numerous cars were damaged [...]

Buenos Aires - Monday afternoon I got a call from a friend who needed a little help that’s right up my alley. His girlfriend had had a recent operation and wasn’t yet able to cook for a dinner party last night that they’d planned, and he wanted to know if I’d come over and play [...]