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“I also remember the delicious smell of the big loaves of bread baking in the family bakery’s wood-burning oven. I have loved the smell and taste of fresh bread ever since.”
- Georg Solti, musician and conductor
Buenos Aires - The instructions were both explicit and vague at the same time. “Just after 12:00, go to the [...]

 Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
- Charles Franklin “Boss” Kettering, electrical engineer, inventor of the electric starter and lighting system for automobiles
Buenos Aires - Many of my local friends, Argentines [...]

“Sensationalism is like going to a buffet; sometimes people like to go and sample everything that’s there, but you do have people who go just for the dessert tray, so they go to the salacious and they go fill themselves up just on that.”
- Montel Williams
Buenos Aires - Most of you know my proclivity for [...]

 Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible."
- Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher
A few weeks ago one of our local food writers reviewed a new Japanese restaurant located just off the main strip in Barrio [...]

“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”
- Madonna Ciccone
Buenos Aires - I’m being defiant. It’s a small stand for my rights, of some sort or another. It also makes absolutely no difference, but it’ll give me something to comment on.
One of our favorite neighborhood lunch hangouts is no more. Canela [...]

 ”Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!"
- Dom Pierre Pérignon, 17th Century Benedictine monk who is credited with the the idea of blending various vintages and vineyard selections while making Champagne (not, as widely believed, with the invention of sparkling wine or the methode champenoise in general) along with other innovations; this quote may or [...]

“It’s hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn’t own water skis or a snorkel.
- Bill Vaughan, American Journalist and Author

“I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.”
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Italian-American journalist, essayist, and memoirist
Buenos Aires - Okay, everyone who remembers their mother’s tuna fish casserole, raise your hand. There were a legion of recipes for that icon of 1950s and 1960s [...]