SaltShaker

 We must be careful of those who are boxed in linear thought with linear solutions to complex problems if we are to propel the human race and continue the forward progression of mankind.”
- Lance Winslow, Author
Buenos Aires - Some time ago, I got a series of very angry e-mails and post commentaries from a reader, […]

 It’s all about popular!
It’s not about aptitude
It’s the way you’re viewed
So it’s very shrewd to be
Very very popular
Like me!
- excerpted from lyrics to Popular from the show Wicked
Buenos Aires - Let’s face it, who doesn’t want to be popular, part of the in-crowd… well, we finally made it - we’re in in… no, that’s not […]

 …I intend writing a history of my wanderings in the Banda Oriental, and I will call my book “The Purple Land”; for what more suitable name can one find for a country so stained with the blood of her children? You will never read it, of course, for I shall write it in English, and […]

 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
- Arthur C. Clarke, Science & Science Fiction writer
Buenos Aires - I’m almost tempted to list this as a Costa Rica based post rather than Buenos Aires. Not that I’m there, but, there I was, yesterday, reading my friend in Costa Rica’s blog, and she mentions this whole […]

 It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.”
- Henry James, Writer
Buenos Aires - The other night, Henry and I were in the mood for something a little different, and decided to check out another of the Brasilian spots on my list, having crossed one spot off the list already. So, […]

 The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.”
- Galileo Galilei, Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosopher
Buenos Aires - It’s been awhile since I’ve been to what folks in the wine business call a “trade […]

In May of 2007 we were featured as one of two restaurants on a local broadcast on the Telefe channel about the "phenomenon" of restaurants in local homes. Unfortunately, our recorder screwed up and recorded only picture without sound. Luckily, Martin Mangiaterra over at Caracoles para da Vinci, the other restaurant featured, recorded it, got […]

 Does anyone make better soup than the Portuguese? I doubt it. Certainly no one makes better bread. And no one, I suspect, knows more ways to prepare salt cod.”
- Jean Anderson, The Food of Portugal
Buenos Aires - I’m going to claim a complete lack of creativity… more or less. I don’t know alot about Portuguese […]