SaltShaker

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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”, [...]

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 [...]