SaltShaker

There’s a book out, and has been for awhile now, called Hungry Planet, by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio. It’s a photo essay of families from around the world each seated around a table with a week’s worth of groceries. Time magazine has just published an online selection of fifteen of those photos along with [...]

 Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.”
- Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters
Buenos Aires - People who cook will understand this. People who don’t cook may sympathize, based on their attachments to wherever their workspace is, but they won’t understand it. Not at a visceral level. My kitchen, to the casual observer, would normally [...]

 The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can’t eat it.”
- Victor Jules Bergeron (Trader Vic)
Buenos Aires - Never having been to any of the eighteen islands and islets that make up Samoa, and that would fit, combined, comfortably into the state of Rhode Island, I’d be hard-pressed to even guess at what the [...]

 It’s about human imagination and curiosity. What’s out there? What’s in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can’t see with our five senses?”
- James Cameron, Screenwriter, Director, Producer
Buenos Aires - I don’t know why it didn’t click in my mind when the waiter was trying to explain to us the origin of the [...]

 Let us call up the spectacle of a totem meal … The clan is celebrating the ceremonial occasion by the cruel slaughter of its totem animal and it is devouring it raw - blood, flesh and bones. Each man is conscious that he is performing an act forbidden to the individual and justifiable only through [...]

 The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.”
- Christopher Columbus, explorer

Buenos Aires - I know, you’ve been waiting for it. It’s not like I could take a class in various techniques and not try them out here and there. No worries that I’m suddenly [...]

 I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it … I always want to see the third dimension of something … I want to come alive with the object.”
- Andrew Wyeth, American realist painter
Buenos Aires - As I mentioned last week, our cocina de vanguardia class this week [...]