“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… Read More House of the Rising Sun
“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… Read More Tiger Trip
“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… Read More Clarification… My Bad…
“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… Read More Not So Buena Vista Social Club
“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… Read More Nearly Traditional Thanksgiving Dinners
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… Read More Time to Smell the Roses
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… Read More To Flit; to move quickly, lightly, and irregularly like a bird in flight
“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,… Read More Living Hearts