SaltShaker

 The first cultivated potato was grown in what is now Peru, researchers say, and it originated only once, not several times, as some experts propose. The genetic study shows the first potato known to have been farmed is genetically closest to a species now found only in southern Peru, the US and UK researchers write [...]

 The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.”
- Edwin Booth, Actor
Buenos Aires - There are myriad internet sites out there that talk about the world of mistranslation. In the food world, of [...]

 Bugs Bunny: [to a little fawn] Hey, scram. Go on, beat it. the Tasmanian Devil’s liable to get you. He’s a mean, vicious, nasty, no-good, baggy-eyed, marble-headed ignoramorus. He’s a stupid…
Tasmanian Devil: Flattery will get you nowhere.
Buenos Aires - I’d barely posted the theme of “Australia Day” for this weekend’s Casa S dinner before the [...]

I was reminded this morning by an e-mail from a local friend looking for a good fruit & vegetable stand that I get these sorts of request all the time. While I’ve had a page up for a long time that covers quite a few specialty shops around the city that I use regularly, I [...]

 Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! ”
- Luigi Pirandello, Playwright, Poet, Author
Buenos Aires - I know little to nothing about Luigi Pirandello. I [...]

 Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.”
- Lillian Ruth Dickson, Missionary
Buenos Aires - Sometimes, it’s just time to get up and go. “Staying the course” as our current president has put it in the past is not the best option. There was the [...]

 Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.”
- William Temple, Sr.
Buenos Aires - There used to be a nice little coffee shop at the corner of Peñ and Azcuenaga, called BN Cafe. I liked it, it was relaxed, comfortable, loungy, even if they did have [...]

Takes no nerve to do something, ain’t nothin’ else you can do.”
- Tom, The Grapes of Wrath
Buenos Aires - As many of you have noted, sometimes my “themes” for Casa SaltShaker menus seem to have little to do with food. But come on, the movie Grapes of Wrath… that’s food, right? Grapes! Just because no [...]