From the monthly archives:

December 2008

A Little on the Side

2008.Dec.31 Wednesday

 No matter how good the entree is, the entire dinner falls apart if the side dishes don’t add up.” – Anne Braly, Chattanooga Times Free Press Buenos Aires – Just the roundup on this week’s classes – our Color Palate of Italy session 5 came off without a hitch and with a quartet of i [...]

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Jesus Never Ate a Latke

2008.Dec.29 Monday

 The reason for serving latkes on Hanukkah is to commemorate the miracle of the oil, in which a tiny bit of pure olive oil needed to kindle the Eternal Light in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem lasted for eight days. No potatoes were involved in the extraordinary event, of course, because potatoes come from the [...]

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The Chronicles of Shawarma: Book III

2008.Dec.26 Friday

 He had eaten his share of the dinner, but he hadn’t really enjoyed it because he was thinking all the time about Turkish Delight – and there’s nothing that spoils the taste of good ordinary food half so much as the memory of bad magic food.” – C.S. Lewis, author, from The Lion, The Witch, [...]

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Fish ‘n Grains

2008.Dec.25 Thursday

 Rice is a beautiful food. It is beautiful when it grows, precision rows of sparkling green stalks shooting up to reach the hot summer sun. It is beautiful when harvested, autumn gold sheaves piled on diked, patchwork paddies. It is beautiful when, once threshed, it enters granary bins like a (flood) of tiny seed-pearls. It [...]

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Earth Mom, Roman Style

2008.Dec.24 Wednesday

 OPA’LIA, a Roman festival in honour of Opis,a which was celebrated on the 14th day before the Calends of January (Dec. 19th), being the third day of the Saturnalia, which was also originally celebrated on the same day, when only one day was devoted to the latter festival. It was believed that Opis was the [...]

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The Chronicles of Shawarma: Book II

2008.Dec.21 Sunday

 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive and honey.” – Deuteronomy 8:8 Buenos Aires – Notice, no mention of shawarma. I’m pretty certain it doesn’t come up in either the old or new testament, nor in the koran. I could be wrong, but I’m [...]

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Fort Apache

2008.Dec.20 Saturday

 Fort Apache is not actually the real name of the isolated ghetto that lies four miles to the north of the centre of Buenos Aires. A journalist first coined the phrase after a shoot-out in front of the local police station in the early 1980s and it has stuck ever since. Most of the 30,000 [...]

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When the Moon Hits the Sky…

2008.Dec.19 Friday

 …a man that can’t quickly throw together a meal is always going to be dependent on someone else to feed him, be that his wife, girlfriend, or McDonald’s. Dependency is not an admirable trait in a man. You don’t want to be the guy that has to turn to frozen pizzas just because your finer [...]

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Stroll Up the Avenue

2008.Dec.18 Thursday

 We would drive up the Avenue, but we haven’t got the price We would skate up the Avenue, but there isn’t any ice We would ride on a bicycle, but we haven’t got a bike So we’ll walk up the Avenue Yes, we’ll walk up the Avenue And to walk up the Avenue’s what we [...]

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