From the monthly archives:

July 2006

On the Half Shell

2006.Jul.11 Tuesday

Buenos Aires – There are certain things you don’t notice you’re missing until you notice you’re missing them. Tautology at its best. One of those, for me, turned out to be oysters on the half shell. I can’t remember the last time I had any. And truthfully, I wasn’t missing them. Until I was passing [...]

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Los Cumpas & La Cebichada

2006.Jul.10 Monday

Buenos Aires – It was a weekend of Andean cultural events for us. Saturday evening kicked it off with an outing to a peña in San Telmo. A peña is a sort of social hall type club. In this case, a group called Peña Jujeña Cumpas, rented out the basement of a catholic social center, [...]

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Running of the Bulls

2006.Jul.08 Saturday

Buenos Aires – Much as the Palio kicked off last week, a chance for much Italian regional pride and competition, the encierro kicked off yesterday, a chance for much idiocy and injury, as folks attempt to chase, be chased, and hopefully outrun, a bunch of stampeding cattle. My job isn’t to critique those folks who [...]

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Where are the Five Lambs?

2006.Jul.07 Friday

Buenos Aires – The menu is extensive, going on for more than a dozen pages. An entire page of dim sum style dishes “tapas”, several pages of chicken dishes, several of beef, pork, fish and shellfish, even things like eel and frog grace the menu. An entire page devoted to tofu and another to vegetable [...]

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Song of the South

2006.Jul.06 Thursday

Buenos Aires – It’s bad enough that the song Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah from Disney’s Song of the South is stuck running through my head for the last 20 hours. It’s worse to realize that I actually know all the lyrics. I know how the song got there. I had lunch yesterday at Mítico Sur, the “Mythical South” [...]

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The New Kid

2006.Jul.05 Wednesday

Buenos Aires – There’s a new kid in town, a second English language newspaper, the argentimes. It’s written by and for the “youth market” with an emphasis on social and political issues and eco-tourism. I missed the first issue in early June, but picked up the second issue yesterday at the restaurant I’ll be reviewing [...]

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Happy 4th!

2006.Jul.04 Tuesday

Buenos Aires – Happy July 4th to all my friends back in The States! I haven’t decided it I’m going to try to do something here at, say, one of the expat bars, for the 4th. Several are advertising things like “hotdogs, hamburgers, and fireworks” that somehow just don’t grab me. Burgers and hotdogs need [...]

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Opening Night of the Palio

2006.Jul.04 Tuesday

Buenos Aires – The Palio opened up, I believe, on Sunday night, at least according to all my sources. Not that they run the Palio here in Argentina, though there are certainly enough horses and races around, but to the best of my knowledge it continues in its traditional location of Siena, Italy. On the [...]

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Adventures in Search of Sushi

2006.Jul.03 Monday

Buenos Aires – First, and before we get to the raw fish and rice adventures… I was wandering a nearby street, looking in small almacens, or kind of what we think of as neighborhood delis or food shops – looking for pinenuts that didn’t cost the 30 pesos per 60 grams, or roughly $76 a [...]

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