Comments on: All The News That Fits… We Print http://www.saltshaker.net/20061216/all-the-news-that-fits-we-print Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:15:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Radish Night, Part One http://www.saltshaker.net/20061216/all-the-news-that-fits-we-print#comment-9230 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Radish Night, Part One Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:43:56 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/20061216/all-the-news-that-fits-we-print#comment-9230 [...] Buenos Aires - And a good morning in English as well. I decided to split the Casa SaltShaker dinner this week up into parts. Not for the people eating it, they get to dine continuously on the five courses, but in terms of presenting it. That way I avoid the long, meandering post that I usually do on Sunday or Monday mornings, and it also responds to the apparently quite eager folk that I’ve been getting e-mail from in regard to one of the courses. This weekend, the event that caught my eye as a theme was La Noche de Rabanos, or The Night of Radishes. I don’t know alot about it, other than it doesn’t seem to involve the eating of radishes, but more the looking at them. Local artists in various Oaxacan communities in Mexico apparently carve the radishes into fanciful scenes - some of them quite elaborate - many of them related to christmas and the nativity. If you do an internet search, you’ll find plenty of fascinating examples. From there, I simply took a look at some of the multitude of Oaxacan dishes and came up with a menu. What I’m going to present today, are two of the five dishes - the two which are being cooked and presented identically all three nights that we’re doing this festival at the Casa (we expanded by a day, there was much demand for both this week and next during “the holidays”, boosted by the New York Times article that appeared about us last weekend. [...] [...] Buenos Aires - And a good morning in English as well. I decided to split the Casa SaltShaker dinner this week up into parts. Not for the people eating it, they get to dine continuously on the five courses, but in terms of presenting it. That way I avoid the long, meandering post that I usually do on Sunday or Monday mornings, and it also responds to the apparently quite eager folk that I’ve been getting e-mail from in regard to one of the courses. This weekend, the event that caught my eye as a theme was La Noche de Rabanos, or The Night of Radishes. I don’t know alot about it, other than it doesn’t seem to involve the eating of radishes, but more the looking at them. Local artists in various Oaxacan communities in Mexico apparently carve the radishes into fanciful scenes - some of them quite elaborate - many of them related to christmas and the nativity. If you do an internet search, you’ll find plenty of fascinating examples. From there, I simply took a look at some of the multitude of Oaxacan dishes and came up with a menu. What I’m going to present today, are two of the five dishes - the two which are being cooked and presented identically all three nights that we’re doing this festival at the Casa (we expanded by a day, there was much demand for both this week and next during “the holidays”, boosted by the New York Times article that appeared about us last weekend. [...]

]]> By: ksternberg http://www.saltshaker.net/20061216/all-the-news-that-fits-we-print#comment-8806 ksternberg Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:36:42 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/20061216/all-the-news-that-fits-we-print#comment-8806 All this news gives me fits. What a nice mention this is, Dan. Bookings are about to pick up dramatically. All this news gives me fits.

What a nice mention this is, Dan. Bookings are about to pick up dramatically.

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