From the monthly archives:

July 2006

Do A Little Dance…

2006.Jul.24 Monday

Buenos Aires – Yesterday was the first Peruvian dance competition to be held in the city of Buenos Aires, and, of course, we went. Henry was supposed to be part of the opening demonstration – not competing, as this particular event was a combination of a children’s event and a teen’s event. Unfortunately, he didn’t [...]

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Eat Your Veggies!

2006.Jul.22 Saturday

Buenos Aires – There’s a myth floating around out there that this city is unfriendly towards vegetarians. Maybe even to just those who LIKE vegetables. (In fact, on a recent local forum during a discussion of vegetarian restaurants I was referred to as “somehow a veggy fan, though not fundamentalist on it.” Somehow? Makes it [...]

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Wrap It Up! In a Tortilla Please

2006.Jul.21 Friday

Buenos Aires – Mexican food is not a big thing in Argentina. In fact, it lays claim to the foundation of a much used ethnic slur here. Serve something with a bit too much spice to many an Argentine and the response is, “What do I look like, a Mexican?” I’ve hear it more times [...]

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Pici Redux

2006.Jul.20 Thursday

Buenos Aires – A couple of weeks ago I posted about our dinner celebrating the opening of the Paliio. The pasta dish, a classic of Sienese cooking, was pici alle briciole e, a very simple preparation in the final analysis – the pasta simply tossed with freshly sauteed breadcrumbs, garlic, hot peppers, and parsley. I [...]

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Cold Lunch

2006.Jul.19 Wednesday

Buenos Aires – Many moons ago, I had a catering company. My friend Lee, whom I met in cooking school, and I, had this idea for a sort of deli and catering company (oh, and, Happy Birthday Lee! It’s his 50-something’th birthday today). We incorporated – Somewhere Else Catering Inc. – in fact, technically, I [...]

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Mandarinas…

2006.Jul.17 Monday

Buenos Aires – …or tangerines as we would probably call them, and they’re beauties. It wouldn’t have seemed to me to be the season for them, but suddenly they’re appearing at fruit and vegetable stands all over the city. My local favorite spot had a couple of 6′ stacks of crates of them, and they [...]

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Classic Terrine

2006.Jul.15 Saturday

Buenos Aires – It shouldn’t be any surprise that classics, especially in the culinary world, are often among the best food experiences. You can get as excited as you want about foams, gels, and airs cooked up in a laboratory. They’re all well and good, but ethereal as many of them may be, there are [...]

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Mother of Breads

2006.Jul.14 Friday

Buenos Aires – One of the things that professional and good home bakers know, is that to reproduce many high quality breads over and over, you need a mother. Not the woman who tied you to her apron strings when you were four, but more of a wiggly mass of flour, water, and yeast that [...]

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The Gourmet Spy

2006.Jul.12 Wednesday

Buenos Aires – We’re very excited here at Casa SaltShaker. Our first in-print press just came out. Bacanal magazine’s Espía Gourmet came to dinner about a month ago, just before I headed to New York for vacation, had apparently a delightful evening, and had asked if he could write about the experience. We even had [...]

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