From the monthly archives:

November 2006

Care to Join the Sushi Club?

2006.Nov.10 Friday

Have you heard of avoidance behavior? I have and I don’t want to talk about it.” – Kevin Pollack, Comic Actor, The Whole Ten Yards Buenos Aires – There is a chain of sushi bars scattered throughout Argentina, Spain, and Uruguay (or as their website puts it, Uruaguy), called Sushi Club. They’re easy to spot [...]

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Wood-Burning Oven Pizza

2006.Nov.09 Thursday

There are strict rules govern every aspect of pizza making. The dough must be mixed from double-zero grade flour, fresh yeast and water only. … After mixing and rising, it must be shaped only by hand. Toppings are also regulated–tomatoes should be the San Marzano variety, from a small town near Naples, and cheese must [...]

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Gourmet Outings

2006.Nov.07 Tuesday

Buenos Aires – Just a quick Casa S press release… so to speak. We were featured along with three other restaurants on the Salidas Gourmets page of the new, November 2006 issue of Clubs & Countries. A copy is on the press page of the Casa website.

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Galician Cooking

2006.Nov.07 Tuesday

An important feature of Galicia is the presence of many fjord-like indentations on the coast, estuaries that were drowned with rising sea levels after the ice age. These are called rías and are divided into the Rías Altas, the Rías Medias, and the Rías Baixas. Most of the population live near the Rías Baixas, where [...]

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Another Spirited Evening

2006.Nov.05 Sunday

Stan Laurel: “We drank your liqueur.” Mrs Laurel: “That wasn’t liqueur, it was cold tea.” – From Blotto, 1930 Buenos Aires – About a month and a half ago here at Casa S we put on a dinner featuring spirits and liqueurs from what is arguably Argentina’s finest distillery, Tapaus. The food was received to [...]

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Sizzling Steaks and Flaming Pancakes

2006.Nov.04 Saturday

Age appears to be best in four things, – old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” – Alonso of Aragon, 15th Century Spanish Archbishop Buenos Aires – An old friend has been visiting us in Buenos Aires this week after a whirlwind trip to [...]

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Pizza and Sunshine

2006.Nov.01 Wednesday

I openly declare in the face of the entire world that I have never been, neither am, nor will ever be a monarchist, unitarian, or federal, but only a constitutional patriot Roman Catholic under the form of government that is to be dictated and enacted by the majority of our towns themselves or by a [...]

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