From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Unknown Flavors

2008.Apr.13 Sunday

 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 – [...]

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House Wine

2008.Apr.09 Wednesday

 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 – [...]

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Bette Davis Ayes

2008.Apr.08 Tuesday

 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 [...]

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In Merguez Waters

2008.Apr.06 Sunday

 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 [...]

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Noted…

2008.Apr.05 Saturday

 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 [...]

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Fire & Spice, an’ Everything Nice

2008.Apr.05 Saturday

 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 hot [...]

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The Cure

2008.Apr.03 Thursday

 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 [...]

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The League of Extraordinary Beans

2008.Apr.02 Wednesday

 Vegetarian has long been used as the human equivalent of herbivore, which — along with carnivore — has traditionally been applied to nonhuman animals, for the good reason that vorare means not simply ‘eat’ but ‘eat like a wild animal’ (hence devour). The ending -arian generally denotes a conscious adherence, in contrast to the genetic [...]

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