From the monthly archives:

January 2009

The Glow

2009.Jan.12 Monday

 Given our shared passion for cooking, how is it that we were suddenly convinced to retire our pots and pans for good? It’s not just the extra cupboard space that our oven now provides.” – from the book reviewed here… Buenos Aires – Okay, pet peeve in regard to book titles. Yes, book titles. If [...]

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To Tea or Not to Tea

2009.Jan.11 Sunday

 Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.” – Catherine Douzel Buenos Aires – I have no idea who this Catherine Douzel is – according to Google, the above quote appears 1,020 times on the internet, but I can’t find any information about her – perhaps it’s one of those misspellings (of a similar name) [...]

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Fish and Fowl

2009.Jan.07 Wednesday

 Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, [...]

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City of Flowers?

2009.Jan.06 Tuesday

 …the true social and industrial boost begun in 1924 when a Japanese citizen called Gashu, who discovered how fit the zone was for the production of flowers, settled in the land. Along with a group of Japanese immigrant workers, he started the first large plantations. Just five years later producers of Portuguese, Italian, Belgian and [...]

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Redbeard… Visited

2009.Jan.05 Monday

 No hay pirata sin vicio, ni tesoro sin desperdicio. A mar revuelto, ganancia de filibusteros. Los piratas de ojo tapado, dueños de las islas y de los mares amos. (my translation, with no rhyming: There is no pirate without vice nor treasure without loss. A churning sea is the buccaneer’s profit. The pirates with covered [...]

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From Argentina with Spice

2009.Jan.03 Saturday

 A human being may form different notions in the world. Some people think spicy food is good, some think sour food is, some like sweet food, and some like bland. Those are all tendencies of one’s own making. Even if a comedy is playing in Manhattan, there are still a whole lot of people who [...]

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