From the monthly archives:

November 2007

Colors!

2007.Nov.30 Friday

 A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.” – Frederick Douglass, Author, Abolitionist Buenos Aires – It’s been a week with lots of color and interesting little sights. Just a litte Friday photo session… Everyone’s been posting lately about the jacarandas being in bloom, [...]

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Timeless Tastes

2007.Nov.28 Wednesday

 A careful observer can easily see the way in which western cuisine is gaining an increasingly strong influence on Turkish cooking. This influence is taking its place alongside those of ancient Chinese, Persian and Arab civilisations, indigenous Anatolian culture accumulated over many thousands of years, and later still those of Eastern Europe and North Africa. [...]

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Town Plazas

2007.Nov.27 Tuesday

 Under the step, toward the right, I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brightness. At first I thought it was spinning; then I realized that the movement was an illusion produced by the dizzying spectacles inside it. The Aleph was probably two or three centimeters in diameter, but universal space was contained inside [...]

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Urban Forms, Suburban Dreams

2007.Nov.26 Monday

 Wherever in the world I might sense the smell of gum trees, I feel as if I had been take back to Adrogué. And that is exactly what Adrogué was: a large and quiet maze of streets surrounded by lush trees and country houses, a maze of many peaceful nights that my parents liked to [...]

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The Soft Cheese Chronicle

2007.Nov.24 Saturday

 God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!” – Titania, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare Buenos Aires – I promised more cheese, you get more cheese. That’s the long and short of it, the meat of the matter, the curd… The making of a pasta [...]

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Aversity or Adversity…?

2007.Nov.21 Wednesday

 I’m not going to make calf’s brains. But at a certain point, I’d like to retain the permission to do something that’s delicious — to have the chance to win them over.” – from The Finicky Gourmet by Alexandra Jacobs, in the NY Times Buenos Aires – There’s no question that I’ve invited this surplus [...]

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A Taste of History

2007.Nov.20 Tuesday

 I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States Buenos Aires – Anyone who travels extensively, especially in Europe, is probably familiar with [...]

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Hello Dalai

2007.Nov.19 Monday

 You see, my practice is to try to lead a useful existence. That means if you engage in some service to others, give at least a short moment of happiness to others, including animals, then you get the feeling ‘Now I did something good. My existence has become something purposeful.’ After all, the purpose of [...]

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Pickles n Cheese

2007.Nov.14 Wednesday

 pickles n cheese A exclamatory remark, with no real positive or negative connotations. Can be used both in support of, or againt any other statement or situation. Can also be: Pickles and cheese Pickles & cheese Man 1: Alright, I totally aced that test! Man 2: Pickles n cheese!” – Urban Dictionary Buenos Aires – [...]

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