Archive for September, 2007

From the Lunch Pail

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

 …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 formed the [...]

Declaration of Dinner

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

 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 flash by [...]

Lion’s Tooth Pesto

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

 But what a witch is Spring! Into the great cold city of stone and iron a message had to be sent. There was none to convey it but the little hardy courier of the fields with his rough green coat and modest air. He is a true soldier of fortune, this dent-de-lion — this lion’s [...]