From the monthly archives:

October 2006

To the Health of Your Bones

2006.Oct.20 Friday

“The tongue has no bones, but it breaks bones.” – Greek proverb Buenos Aires – In an out of the blue sort of surprise I was contacted this week by representatives from the International Osteoporosis Foundation to initially provide them with a picture that they’d seen on my blog. It was of a bowl of [...]

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Cutting Corners

2006.Oct.20 Friday

“There’s no corners to be cut that don’t cost you in the end. You’ve got to play the game. You’ve got to play a good, solid game. Anything short of our best game is trouble.” – Craig MacTavish, Head Coach, Edmonton Oilers hockey team Buenos Aires – A few months ago a new restaurant opened [...]

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A Day of Tastings

2006.Oct.19 Thursday

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” – Oscar Wilde, Poet, Novelist, Critic Buenos Aires – Yesterday morning started off with another round of our cheese tasting group. This week it was a trio of simple “Argentine blues” – no further designation like “roquefort”, “gorgonzola”, “cabrales”, or “stilton”. Just “blue“. [...]

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Dry as Dust

2006.Oct.18 Wednesday

“Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.” – Welsh proverb Buenos Aires – Perhaps dry as dust is a bit strong. But if that’s truly a Welsh proverb, then the folks of Wales would appreciate the food at Bodhi, Chile 1763, in Montserrat. Yet another [...]

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Taking Wing

2006.Oct.17 Tuesday

“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” – James Matthew Barrie, Scottish Novelist, best known for Peter Pan A wander through Plaza de Mayo with my godson.

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A Few Twists of the Whisk

2006.Oct.15 Sunday

“Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.” – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Buenos Aires – It’s no small thing to have a pair of boots, a city, and a steak named after you, especially when you’ve had to change your name to get there, and everyone thought [...]

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Regular (Peruvian) Sauce

2006.Oct.14 Saturday

“SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.” -Ambrose Bierce, Writer, Devil’s Dictionary Buenos Aires – It took me a while [...]

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Who Cut the Cheese?

2006.Oct.12 Thursday

“Cheese is milk’s leap towards immortality.” – Clifton Fadiman, Radio Show Host, Information Please (1938-1948) Buenos Aires – A few weeks ago I was invited to participate in a series of cheese tastings sponsored by ArgentineWines.com. I’m not exactly clear the purpose of these tastings – I thought I was – but it seems that [...]

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Squash Curry

2006.Oct.11 Wednesday

How lush, how loose, the uninhibited squash is. If ever hearts (and these immoderate leaves Are vegetable hearts) were worn on sleeves, The squash’s are. In green the squash vine gushes. The flowers are cornucopias of summer, Briefly exuberant and cheaply golden. And if they make a show of being hidden, Are open promiscuously to [...]

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