From the monthly archives:

September 2006

Poularde Portugaise… More or Less

2006.Sep.09 Saturday

“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 [...]

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Heresy in the Land of Carnivores

2006.Sep.08 Friday

“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 [...]

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Dos Chivitos

2006.Sep.06 Wednesday

“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, [...]

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A Taste of Hawaii

2006.Sep.05 Tuesday

 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 [...]

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Navigation

2006.Sep.04 Monday

“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 [...]

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A Great Perhaps

2006.Sep.02 Saturday

“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, [...]

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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

2006.Sep.01 Friday

 When I wish to make a wish I wave my hand with a big swish swish. Then I say, “I wish for fish!” And I get fish right on my dish.” – Dr. Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, 1960 Buenos Aires – I met up for lunch with a couple of [...]

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