From the monthly archives:

November 2006

House of the Rising Sun

2006.Nov.30 Thursday

 When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven.” – Paul Prudhomme, Chef Buenos Aires – Several people have mentioned over the last year or so that among the Japanese restaurants in town worth checking out is the one at the Japanese Cultural Center right on the edge of [...]

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Tiger Trip

2006.Nov.29 Wednesday

 All through the day how the hours rush by, you sit in the park and you watch the grass die.” – John Denver, Singer, Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio Tigre – With a friend visiting for a couple of weeks, various things keep getting shifted around – we were going to go to Rosario on [...]

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Clarification… My Bad…

2006.Nov.27 Monday

 A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.” – Confuscius Buenos Aires – A few days ago I posted my reaction to a piece this week in the New York Times travel magazine. The piece (from the Times, not mine) generated a lot of local conversation, and a [...]

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Not So Buena Vista Social Club

2006.Nov.27 Monday

 It all comes back to the basic. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they’ll keep coming back.” – Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy’s Buenos Aires – Now, Dave Thomas may have been talking about a fast food hamburger chain, albeit a (small) step above much of [...]

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Nearly Traditional Thanksgiving Dinners

2006.Nov.25 Saturday

 It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with “gourmet” status.” – Russell Baker, Journalist Buenos Aires – We didn’t have a single request from any norteamericano expats for [...]

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Time to Smell the Roses

2006.Nov.24 Friday

 One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie, Lecturer, Author Buenos Aires – It was time to visit [...]

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To Flit; to move quickly, lightly, and irregularly like a bird in flight

2006.Nov.23 Thursday

 This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.” – Ziggy Marley, Musician Buenos Aires – I love watching dragonflies. There’s just something about them, the way the flit around. They’ve always been a [...]

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Living Hearts

2006.Nov.22 Wednesday

 We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, [...]

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Did Someone Miss the Point?

2006.Nov.21 Tuesday

 These days Palermo Viejo has the same thrumming energy as Silver Lake in Los Angeles or the Mitte in Berlin, and it’s the place where in-the-know travelers and hip locals alike go for their shopping (one section is known as Palermo SoHo) and night-life fix. It’s also home to the city’s liveliest dining scene, but [...]

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