From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Diminutive

2009.Feb.28 Saturday

 The recipe is only music on the page it is you who will make it sing. To cook is to create, to marry ingredients as poets marry words, to play chords with flavors, to invent new and subtle harmonies.” – Roger Vergé, chef Buenos Aires – It has been quite awhile since I’ve been out [...]

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Ring Around the Mediterranean

2009.Feb.26 Thursday

 The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.” – Vincent van Gogh Buenos Aires – Last weekend’s dinners whisked in with [...]

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Do You Guys Eat Like This…?

2009.Feb.24 Tuesday

 I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It’s been about two months since I’ve worked out. And I just don’t have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a [...]

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For What Ails You

2009.Feb.22 Sunday

 And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.” – John Steinbeck, East of Eden I’m [...]

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Speakeasy

2009.Feb.18 Wednesday

 Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.” – Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the U.S. Buenos Aires – A speakeasy implies an illegally run, underground, secretive drinking spot, where often more went on in [...]

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The Stuff that Dreams are Made of

2009.Feb.17 Tuesday

 I come from long ago, from a magnificent and great empire, from a cast of sorcerers, holy men, and the masters of the sun. – Mamani Mamani, Artist Buenos Aires – It always sounded like a hole-in-the-wall, one of the ubiquitous Peruvian eateries that fill the neighborhood near to the Abasto. And so, given that [...]

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4th!

2009.Feb.16 Monday

Those of you who aren’t part of my Facebook connections, or Casa SaltShaker’s facebook fan page, or my Twitter feed (yes, I do all those things, they don’t really take up that much time unless you let yourself get sucked into it), probably didn’t know that Wednesday, Henry and I celebrated our fourth anniversary. Time [...]

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Shoot the Moon

2009.Feb.15 Sunday

 Each heart taken is one point, and the Queen of spades is a whopping 13 points. If a single player takes all 13 hearts cards, and the queen of spades, the effect on the scoring is reversed all other players receive 26 points. This is called “shooting the moon.” – from the rules for Hearts [...]

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Rare ≠ Quality

2009.Feb.14 Saturday

 Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.” – Marcus Valerius Martial, poet Buenos Aires – Some of you may remember last year’s Masters of Food and Wine event, which, other than one negative [...]

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