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“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 that occurs [...]

“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 employed in [...]

“When the Patron of a Paris bistro is a native of Lyon and his wife - who does the cooking - comes from Les Landes, then you may be sure that the quality of both the wine and the food, simple though they may be, are the best. That is what you will find Chez [...]

“One farmer says to me, ”You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him [...]

“The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.”
- Mason Cooley, American aphorist, Professor of English
Colonia del Sacramento - It was time for that quarterly visa dance that so many of us living here on our tourist visas have to do. We have options - we can travel lots, in and [...]

 How sad and yet I gave my consent to have the old Royal Hawaiian Band who are now the Government U.S. band come and serenade me on this the occasion of my 62nd birthday. My consent is the healing over of ill will of all great differences caused by the overthrow of my throne and [...]

“I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, novelist, dramatist, humanist, scientist, theorist, painter, and for ten years a chief minister of state… and I think I’m busy
Buenos Aires - Today, I’m going to reveal a [...]

“The bun-sellers or cake-makers were in nothing inclinable to their request; but, which was worse, did injure them most outrageously, calling them prattling gabblers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangy rascals, shite-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, paltry customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydens, flouting milksops, [...]