SaltShaker

 Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.”
- Buddha
Buenos Aires – It seems a trifle odd to enter into a hotel and find yourself in the dining room. But then, in [...]

 Our great challenge, our great battle, is to produce food in Nicaragua. We have to fill Nicaragua with food, even in our yards at home, we have to plant a little bit of beans and corn. This will mean income, and will assure us food… it will allow us to export to international markets, to [...]

 The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%”
- Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist, Philanthropist
Buenos Aires – I was going [...]

 Everyone loves this recipe, which they know from Chinese restaurants as ma po tofu. It’s a versatile dish, which here is served over crispy rice. You could also serve it over noodles. For a change, I sometimes like to fry cooked rice until it’s crispy and sprinkle it on top instead.”
- Masaharu Morimoto in “Morimoto: [...]

 I never planned in my imagination, a situation so heavenly
A fairy land that no one else could enter
- from Stars Fell On Alabama
Buenos Aires – Thirty years ago this past weekend, the Shah of Iran’s reign over the country once known as Persia ended, and he and his family fled to Egypt. There was dancing [...]

 In the event of fire or earthquake, please wake your waiter.
- one of many signs tacked to the wall in this restaurant…
Vicente Lopez – Finishing up on the other day’s post on my walkabout in this northern suburb, as I mentioned, I was in search of a chivitería that my Brazilian cooking instructor had recommended. [...]

 I am incapable of conceiving infinitiy and yet I do not accept finity.”
- Simone de Beauvoir, author, feminist
Buenos Aires – Well before it was politically correct or even remotely in fashion, let alone acceptable, to talk and write about feminisim and female sexuality, Simone de Beauvoir was doing so. Last weekend she joined the ranks [...]

 Hear, mortals, the sacred cry:
“Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”
Hear the noise of broken chains,
see the noble Equality enthroned.
Their most honorable throne have opened
the United Provinces of the South.
And the free ones of the world reply:
“To the Argentinian people, Hail!”
- from the Argentine National Anthem
Vicente López – This suburban area just north of the city is named after [...]