From the monthly archives:

September 2006

Last Meal

2006.Sep.18 Monday

 I feel the end approaching. Quick, bring me my dessert, coffee and liqueur.” – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin’s great aunt Pierette Buenos Aires – Paz, from The Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz, has tagged me with a new meme that’s making the rounds. Now, despite the fact that she has yet to respond to the meme I [...]

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A Spirited Evening

2006.Sep.17 Sunday

“Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.” – Andrea Rita Dworkin, Feminist, Writer, and Critic Buenos Aires – A couple of months ago I was introduced to the distilled spirits of Tapaus, the alta gama (top range) of Argentine spirits. A relatively [...]

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Here Come Da Judge

2006.Sep.16 Saturday

“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” – Richard Bach, Writer Buenos Aires – It seems like a huge amount of time has passed since I got seriously into the wine field. I’ve been in the world of food and restaurants since I was a teen and first able to [...]

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Wandering the Wine Wonderland

2006.Sep.15 Friday

“I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.” – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 16th Century Spanish author, best known for El Quijote Buenos Aires – This week is “wine week” here in Buenos Aires, and probably the most important public event is the annual Vinos y Bodegas exposition of Argentine [...]

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Gay Marriage in Argentina

2006.Sep.15 Friday

“It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, 19th Century British politician, poet, and novelist (infamous for his novel Paul Clifford, that begins with “It was a dark and stormy night… Buenos Aires – Earlier this week I [...]

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Red Tape

2006.Sep.14 Thursday

Buenos Aires – As I noted the other day, I’m in the midst of working on a longer term visa. One of the things that Argentina requires for all documentation that comes from other countries, is something called an Apostille. This is basically a certification from an office such as the Secretary of State in [...]

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Not Just by the Numbers

2006.Sep.13 Wednesday

“Some things are being destroyed, because the Italians are just as tired of their basic food as the Americans and French were 20 years ago. So they’re reinventing to avoid palate exhaustion.” – Mario Batali, Chef Buenos Aires – I’m not quite at the point of calling it a trend, but there’s definitely a current [...]

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Gold Rush Fever

2006.Sep.12 Tuesday

“The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.” – Logan Pearsall Smith, early 20th Century American Essayist Buenos Aires – Giving and taking advice is one of the most dangerous passtimes [...]

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Chantilly…

2006.Sep.10 Sunday

“If they ask you what it is, tell them it’s an old recipe from Chantilly.” – Gérard Depardieu, from the movie Vatel Buenos Aires – Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, Duc d’Enghien, and probably several other titles, was not only a famed French general, but a well known gourmet. At various times he [...]

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