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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Buenos Aires - I recently “celebrated” the one year anniversary of this blog, and given that I launched into it as I began my adventures outside of New York, it’s no surprise that another birthday pops up. My arrival in Buenos Aires to, potentially at that point, live, was July 2, 2005, a grey, drizzly [...]
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Brussels Sprouts abound. Or is that Brussel Sprouts? It’s a source of quite a bit of contention whether this “countable noun” should have an “s” on the end of its first name. But then, it’s named after the city of Brussels, in Belgium, so one would think that’s a non-issue. [...]
Buenos Aires - There was much yelling and shouting going out outside yesterday morning - obviously the start of the much ballyhooed Argentina versus Germany soccer, or rather futbol, match. I know nothing about soccer other than men in short shorts and round ball with alternating white hexagons and black pentagons. Now it turns out [...]
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