From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Bland Elegance

2009.Jan.31 Saturday

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 [...]

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Sandwichnistas

2009.Jan.29 Thursday

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 [...]

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25%…

2009.Jan.29 Thursday

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 [...]

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A Little Chinese

2009.Jan.23 Friday

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 [...]

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A Shah Fell On Eslamabad

2009.Jan.21 Wednesday

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. [...]

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Northern Mexican

2009.Jan.19 Monday

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 [...]

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Sextennial

2009.Jan.16 Friday

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 [...]

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Always a Bridesmaid

2009.Jan.16 Friday

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 [...]

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Still Here

2009.Jan.15 Thursday

Thanks to all who enquired, I’m fine. Just a combination of a little swamped with a project I got behind on and swapping to a different computer that doesn’t have all the bells and whistles installed on it the way I like them. I’ll be back up and writing regular posts after this weekend… In [...]

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