From the monthly archives:

May 2007

Back to School

2007.May.16 Wednesday

 Learning is not compulsory … neither is survival.” – Henry Ward Beecher, 20th century U.S. management consultant Buenos Aires – The gasps were audible. To anyone. I’d just introduced myself to my classmates, and I’ve been working in the restaurant business longer than most of them have been alive. Not surprising on my side, I [...]

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Spice Story

2007.May.14 Monday

 History loves a paradox, and there can be none greater than a taste for spices being responsible for the exploration of our planet. Sovereigns pledged their prestige, and navigators risked their lives, not in the quest for gold or the thirst for power but to redirect the distribution of a few inessential and today almost [...]

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Goulash

2007.May.13 Sunday

 If you like Hungarian food, They have a goulash which is very good. Or if you wish a dish that’s Chinese, Somewhere down in Column B there’s lobster Cantonese. Enchiladas, that’s what people eat in Mexico. Shish kebab is skewered, in Armenia you know. Then there’s blubber, the favorite of the frigid Eskimo. Such delicious [...]

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Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

2007.May.12 Saturday

 No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.” Carrie P. Snow, Comedienne Buenos Aires – I went to the bakery this morning, and snagged myself a number tab as I got in line to pick up bread for this evening… Someone please wake me in time for the guests to arrive…

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Kindred Spirits

2007.May.10 Thursday

 We relish the opportunity of finding something new and different to eat wherever we go, whether it is part of an extended travel experience to a far destination or simply to a treasured friend’s table down the street. On The Road is our way of sharing the pleasure and adventure of food discovery through the [...]

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Would You Like to Buy a Vowel?

2007.May.09 Wednesday

 Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.” – Bill Cosby, Comedian Buenos Aires – To me, it seemed a natural match – five official vowels, five courses to the meal – why is that a bizarre theme for a Casa Saltshaker dinner? I [...]

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The New Yule Log

2007.May.08 Tuesday

Cheddar Vision … and, it’s year-round!

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Pictures that Need a Thousand Words

2007.May.08 Tuesday

 I have no interest in eating at a restaurant named after a gland.” – a local friend Buenos Aires – … and, I understand that. On the other hand, sometimes words have more than one meaning, and in this case, the dual entry is the genus of an herb. Thyme to be exact, and the [...]

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It Was… The Salmon Trout

2007.May.07 Monday

 In 1992 the steelhead trout, Salmo gairdneri (the species named in memory of Meredith Gairdner, a 19th-century naturalist) was reclassified in the genus Oncorhynchus (“hooked nose”), and mykiss (a Siberian word for the species). There are two races, both native to Western North America. The common name of the freshwater O.m. is rainbow trout, a [...]

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