From the monthly archives:

February 2008

Any Way You Slice It

2008.Feb.28 Thursday

 You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” – Yogi Berra, former Baseball Player and Manager Buenos Aires – It’s been a pizza kind of week, and part of that, as always, is the search for better and better pizza in town. A couple that came to [...]

Read the full article →

Guantanamo

2008.Feb.26 Tuesday

 The sun of my Cuba Salutes me good morning I take breakfast and come out The whole world is already up Hey chico turn the volume up Coz I love this bolero And this line to buy the bread, goes around the entire world anyway Now picture La Habana The old streets with colonel air [...]

Read the full article →

Chopsticks

2008.Feb.24 Sunday

 And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven’t yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture [...]

Read the full article →

Abandon all hope?

2008.Feb.21 Thursday

 This is a book that confronts one of the least known but important facts about the world’s cities: that they are home to more than a billion squatters. Within a generation, that number is projected to grow to two billion – and more than half the people living in cities will be squatters. Yet most [...]

Read the full article →

Bretons in Argentina

2008.Feb.20 Wednesday

 Very thin, wide pancakes made from buckwheat flour are eaten with ham, eggs and other savoury fillings. They are usually called galettes (Breton galetes), except in the western parts of Brittany where they are called crêpes (Breton krampouezh). Thin crêpes made from wheat flour are eaten for dessert. Other pastries, such as kouign amann (“butter [...]

Read the full article →

More TV

2008.Feb.20 Wednesday

 We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.” – Barbara Ehrenreich, Columnist, Political Activist Buenos Aires – Some of you may remember I mentioned back in November that we’d had a telelvision film crew in for one of our dinners (their idea, not ours, though in a moment [...]

Read the full article →

Where’s the beef?

2008.Feb.19 Tuesday

 There’s nothing wrong with entertainment, of course, but perhaps our celebrity chefs should learn the first rule of good dining: even the finest food leaves a sour taste if you eat it every day. So move away from the camera, go back to your kitchens, and come back when we can stomach you again. It [...]

Read the full article →

Commentary

2008.Feb.18 Monday

For those who haven’t noticed, I turned off the feature that required you register and log-in in order to comment. I don’t know why, but apparently the registration software had simply stopped sending out passwords when people register, and even when I manually entered new people who wanted to register, they couldn’t log-in. So commentary [...]

Read the full article →

Purple Mountain Majesties

2008.Feb.18 Monday

 Great things are done when men and mountains meet. – William Blake, Poet Mendoza, Argentina – Let the muttering begin… He’s been in Argentina for almost three years and he’s never been to Mendoza…? What kind of wine geek is he…? You’re right, really, and I don’t have much of an excuse for not having [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries