SaltShaker

 Dive and know the depth; watch and discriminate; eat and know the taste – I long for people who do that.”
- The Atharvaveda
Buenos Aires – I’m not a big fan of chain restaurants, as I tend to find that they do things with rigid formulas and patterns – and most of the time end up [...]

 Apparently, he’s got a record longer than my… well, it’s long.”
Linus, in Ocean’s Eleven
Buenos Aires – I’m not sure what the reverse of padding one’s resume is, but if there’s not a name for it, someone should invent one. Chef’s do it all the time – adding in a little here, a little there, changing [...]

Buenos Aires – You all remember 6LL3 don’t you? The cloned sheep that we were all up in arms about, some of us on one side of the issue, some on the other. Oh, yeah, you probably don’t know her by her “real” name, but by the name that some stockman who helped deliver her [...]

Buenos Aires – The new Summer/Autumn 2007 issue of Time Out Buenos Aires has hit the racks. I have a feature article on vegetarian dining, along with a dozen and a half new restaurant reviews in this edition.
Casa SaltShaker also got nice writeups in both the review section and as part of a feature [...]

Lima, Peru – I know it’s going to seem to some like I’m giving Lima shortshrift by only writing one post on the city, especially after the seemingly endless droning I’ve been doing about other parts of Peru. But, this was our Lima experience… we had not planned on staying in Lima at all. If [...]

Trujillo, Peru – At least for now, this is my roundup post on Trujillo and its food, and meeting Henry’s family. I’m going to let the photos speak for themselves for the most part… these are some of the highlights of the visit.
We spent an hour at a horse show one afternoon at a local [...]

Trujillo, Peru – It’s not that Trujillo doesn’t have supermarkets, though it doesn’t have many of them, it’s just that most of the populace a) wouldn’t trust a supermarket, and b) can’t afford to shop in one. And the city is blessed, if that is the right word, with three separate major food markets – [...]

Trujillo, Peru – I’m going to take a couple of posts and get back to the topic of food for a bit. All this traveling about makes me hungry. Besides, I think the post on spending a week meeting Henry’s family needs to wait until I can take the time to sit down and think [...]