From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Of Wings and Wines

2008.Oct.31 Friday

 When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be.” – Henry Van Dyke, short story writer, poet San Rafael, Argentina – The next series of posts will be mostly alot of wine tasting and winery stuff [...]

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Continental Drift

2008.Oct.30 Thursday

 Under the… new hypothesis [of Continental Drift] certain geological concepts come to acquire a new significance amounting in a few cases to a complete inversion of principles, and the inquirer will find it necessary to re-orient his ideas. For the first time he will get glimpses… of a pulsating restless earth, all parts of which [...]

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Iced Again

2008.Oct.29 Wednesday

 Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.” – Roy Andries de Groot, gourmet, author Buenos Aires – Here’s the thing. I’m wrong about things [...]

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Spring in Spring

2008.Oct.25 Saturday

 It’s spring fever…. You don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” – Mark Twain, author Buenos Aires – No question, spring has sprung in these parts. And what better place to stop off for lunch on a beautiful spring day in [...]

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“I Would Rather Have Been Part of the Boedo Group”

2008.Oct.23 Thursday

 The years from 1924 to 1933 were quite prolific and exciting for Borges. He founded several more literary magazines with varying amounts of success, and he contributed a variety of pieces to many existing magazines, most notably Martin Fierro. Ironically, his contributions to this magazine were to take an unexpected turn when the editors of [...]

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Langkasuka

2008.Oct.21 Tuesday

 Finally, when it had been erased from the map of the penninsular after some many centuries, the name ‘Langkasuka’ again appeared in our history when it was mooted by our founding fathers as a possible name for independent Malaya.” – Sabri Zain, The Lost Kingdom of Langasuka Buenos Aires – There was no reason in [...]

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The Raw Fix

2008.Oct.20 Monday

 God gave man the challenge of raw materials — not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.” – unknown New York City – In the previous review I mentioned that tasting the crudo plate [...]

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No Longer a Lost Sole

2008.Oct.19 Sunday

 Roughly translated from the Italian, fare la scarpetta means to wipe your plate clean with a hunk of bread—a practice that, depending upon the culinary circles you travel in, is considered either a sign of bad breeding or a compliment to the chef.” – Robin Raisfeld & Rob Patronite, NY Magazine New York City – [...]

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Way Up North

2008.Oct.18 Saturday

 I am–fanatically, unapologetically–a placeist. This makes me a virtual thought-criminal in an age of global homogeneity. ‘Placeism’ might be defined in the criminal code as the unreasoned love of a particular place, be it a neighborhood, village, city, or even state. Placeists insist that residents of real places have histories, customs, accents, and concerns that [...]

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