From the monthly archives:

June 2007

Supping Samoan Style

2007.Jun.07 Thursday

 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 [...]

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Come to Your Senses!

2007.Jun.06 Wednesday

 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 [...]

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Lunch Therapy

2007.Jun.04 Monday

 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 [...]

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Grasping for Air

2007.Jun.02 Saturday

 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 [...]

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Textures

2007.Jun.01 Friday

 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 [...]

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