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“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 each week [...]

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 every comer.
Let the squash be what it [...]

“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come [...]

‘One of the things I wanted to do, especially for beginners, was to make sure people could walk in, feel comfortable and ask anything.”
- Kirk Novak, Owner, The Northern Angler, Traverse City, Michigan
Buenos Aires - I mentioned a few weeks ago that I had some new and interesting projects coming online. Shortly after, the next [...]

“Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.”
- Robert Warshow, U.S. author, in The Gangster as Tragic Hero
Buenos Aires - Last night was a very special night here in Buenos Aires, and one [...]

 Can anything be more humiliating than that your mother, friendless and alone, should have to eat others’ food?”
- Queen Pritha-Kunti, from the Mahabharata
Buenos Aires - Perhaps I should have taken it as a sign when we were turned away the first time we visited this restaurant. Especially given the reasoning of the wave-off, that the [...]

“In each religion there are essential things, and others which are only forms and fashions; as a loaf of sugar may perhaps be wrapped in brown or white or blue paper, and tied with a string of flax or wool, red or yellow; but the sugar is always there.”
- Benjamin Franklin, American Statesman, Scientist, and [...]

“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.”
- Ursula K. LeGuin, Science Fiction Writer
Buenos Aires - Such slanderous words written against the eggplant! And from one of my favorite science fiction authors. And the white eggplant has engendered more [...]