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“It’s been my policy to view the Internet not as an ‘information highway,’ but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.”
- Mike Royko, American Journalist
Buenos Aires - I share a birthday with Mike Royko. Also with Twiggy. Different years. My best friend when I was about five years old, Tina, and I, shared a […]

 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 tagged her […]

“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 new distillery, […]

“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 get a […]

“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 wines at […]

“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 saw an […]

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 […]

“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 fad for […]