From the monthly archives:

September 2007

Happy New Stuff!

2007.Sep.13 Thursday

Buenos Aires – First off, a Happy New Year, or Happy Rosh Hashanah, or Shana Tova, in particular to any of my Jewish readers, friends, neighbors… though really, to everyone – today begins the year 5768, and we’ll just have to see what it has in store for SaltShaker, my life, and the lives of [...]

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Music to Soothe the Savage…

2007.Sep.13 Thursday

 I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t understand.” – Sir Edward Appleton, English Physicist Buenos Aires – I enjoy opera. There. It’s out in the open. I’ve said it. I enjoy opera. I’m not what you would call a fan or fanatic or [...]

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Altibajos

2007.Sep.12 Wednesday

 Curves are so emotional.” – Piet Mondrian, Dutch artist Buenos Aires – I love that there’s a single Spanish word that means something that has ups and downs or highs and lows. I gleaned it from the commentary left about a spot on our local online restaurant guide, Guia Oleo. The comment was left in [...]

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Full Speed Ahead

2007.Sep.10 Monday

 The RMS Lusitania, or “The Lucy” as she was affectionately known, was launched on Thursday, 7 June 1906, at the shipyard of John Brown & Co., Clydebank. She was built as a result of negotiations between the British Government and Cunard Line to build two superliners capable of taking back the Blue Riband for the [...]

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Wonderland Revisited

2007.Sep.08 Saturday

 I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.” – William Howard Taft, 27th U.S. President Buenos Aires – It’s that time again, the annual Vinos y Bodegas expo. Since I already went [...]

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More Than Filadelfia

2007.Sep.07 Friday

 It’s the lore of the North that allows a traveller caught in a blizzard to break into a cabin for food and warmth in order to keep body and soul together. But what about breaking into an expensive condo just before Christmas, ripping open all the presents hoping to find chocolates, raiding the fridge and [...]

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Cheesy Beginnings

2007.Sep.06 Thursday

 A journey of a thousand miles begins with a new hat.” – axiom for any proper traveler… Buenos Aires – As I’ve mentioned a couple of times recently, my new hat is “cheese making student”. It’s one of those things that I was always curious about, principally, I suppose, because I really like cheese, but [...]

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From the Lunch Pail

2007.Sep.05 Wednesday

 …there was always the risk of dating someone who’d owned a lunch box with my picture on it.” – Shaun Cassidy, Pop Singer/Actor Buenos Aires – There’s nothing like a really good use of some leftovers. In this case, the mamaliga from this weekend’s dinners. More or less the Eastern European version of polenta, I [...]

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Declaration of Dinner

2007.Sep.04 Tuesday

 Whether Moldova or Transnistria are nations is a question for 100 or 400 years ago.” – Ryan Lanham, Identity Unknown Buenos Aires – I knew nothing, truly nothing, about the nation-state of Transnistria, as it is known in English, or the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic as others know it. It’s a conflict which I’ve probably seen [...]

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