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 I’d like to be a passion fruit. Not because it’s passionate, but because someone I know is mad about them and has got me onto them.”
- Joseph Fiennes, Actor
Buenos Aires - Private party. Birthday. No seafood. Maybe something vaguely mixed Latin American. A tasty causa topped with a chicken salad instead of tuna salad and […]

 There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”
- Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Buenos Aires - Don really […]

 When it comes to traveling these are some wonders I’d like to see: A cabdriver who understands English, especially in America. A place in the world where you can’t get a Big Mac and a Coke. A headwaiter who hides his scorn when you order the house wine.”
- George Burns, Comedian
Buenos Aires - Several people […]

 Just because someone is dead does not mean they have changed!”
- Bette Davis, when it was suggested she not speak ill of the dead
Buenos Aires - I may continue on this trend of centennial birthdays, more or less - we had so much fun with Carmen Miranda’s 99th and Anna Magnani’s 100th, that I couldn’t […]

 A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”
- Alan Patrick Herbert, Novelist
Buenos Aires - I decline to enter the debate, and yes, there is a debate - well, more like hotly contested opinions - as to what constitutes a true merguez sausage. Given that merguez simply means […]

 In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.”
- Thomas Carlyle, Philosopher
Buenos Aires - Just a few random notes…
Disco, one of the local supermarkets, is three deep with people at the meat, i.e., beef, counter. With the 30-day suspension of the strike, people are battling over the packages of red meat like they’re […]

 The Jalapeño takes its name from the city of Xalapa (Jalapa), Mexico where it is thought to have originated. The Jalapeño pepper has since gained tremendous fame due to its versatility in the food industry. Jalapeño Peppers are commonly found in most chain stores, processed sliced and canned. The Jalapeño features a sweet, but […]

 Three faces wears the doctor:
When first sought,
An angel’s and a god’s the cure half-wrought;
But when, the cure complete he seeks his fee,
The devil looks less terrible than he.
- Unknown (quoted in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations)
Buenos Aires - A few weeks back I ran a post about my sausage making and meat curing class. It was a […]