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 The crab that walks too far falls into the pot.”
- Haitian proverb

Buenos Aires - Maryland may have its crab bashes, but northern Peru has its crab bursts. Cangrejo reventado, much as it sounds like taxonomic nomenclature, simply means “burst crab”. I got to taste this dish once on the beach in Trujillo and loved it, […]

 [Cooking] is spontaneous. It’s what hits you at the moment, not the result of years of carefully crafting details. It doesn’t follow a strict formula, though you might notice similarities and consistencies of style. All the rules are open to reinterpretation.
- paraphrase from Chip Camden, software developer
Buenos Aires - With strains of the music from […]

 The task of keeping food vibrant and interesting, particularly food that belongs to a long tradition, is the challenge of any cook, professional or amateur. For those who have a repertoire of their own, the repetitive aspect of cooking and the demands of our relentless need to eat can easily turn cooking into a dull […]

Buenos Aires - Just a quick note, a public posting, to thank all those of you who sent e-mails enquiring after Henry’s family in Peru with the now two earthquakes in the last two days. They’re fine, they live up on the far northwest coast, about an eight hour drive north of Lima, and the […]

 The wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the revolution in American food that has made exotic ingredients, celebrity chefs, rarefied cooking tools, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives.”
- back cover blurb from…
Buenos Aires - …The United States of Arugula, by David Kamp, catchy title, no? Wish I’d have thought of it first. […]

 Sure ‘Queen’ was vulgar and sleazy and filled with bathos and bad taste,” wrote producer Howard Blake in an article for Fact magazine. “That was why it was so successful. It was exactly what the general public wanted….We got what we were after. Five thousand Queens got what they were after. And the TV audience […]

 If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.”
- Sebastião Salgado, Photojournalist
Buenos Aires - As I’ve mentioned many a time, I love finding little, out of the way, hole in the wall type places. I […]

 I have wandered about for weeks without encountering a single decent meal. With precious few exceptions, the hotels of America all cook alike - and what they offer is hard to distinguish from what is offered on railway dining-cars.”
- H.L. Mencken, Writer, Journalist
Buenos Aires - You know, I know that it’s hard to find a […]