From the monthly archives:

March 2009

On the Border

2009.Mar.31 Tuesday

 Comer bien o comer mal es una cuestión cultural. Comer o no comer es una cuestión de dinero.” (Eating well or badly is a question of culture. Eating or not eating is a question of money.) – Manual Vázquez Montalbán, author Buenos Aires – On the western edge of Spain, bordering Portugal, is the region [...]

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Catch-Up

2009.Mar.27 Friday

 Learn to pause … or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.” – Doug King, author Buenos Aires – With private parties and multiple menus, it seems like I’m falling further and further behind in keeping up with posts about our dinners. Plus, I’m not sure that I really need to writeup every single recipe [...]

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Good Evening Vietnam!

2009.Mar.21 Saturday

 When you travel in Vietnam, you will find a fantastic mix of culture and nature. Its perfect blend of frenetic cities, untouched countryside and island hideaways promises to leave you breathless. The cities retain the grandeur of their colonial past- the wide boulevards and narrow alleyways alive with iconic cyclos, and the air thick with [...]

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Aloha Argentina

2009.Mar.19 Thursday

 It is the meeting place of East and West. The very new rubs shoulders with the immeasurably old… All these strange people live close to each other, with different languages and different thoughts; they believe in different gods and they have different values; two passions alone they share, love and hunger. And somehow as you [...]

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Peru Fusion Day Two

2009.Mar.17 Tuesday

 The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be.” – Dore Schary, producer Buenos Aires – I was originally going to do a compare and contrast between my last spot reviewed, PozoSanto, and the [...]

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Lost Opportunity…

2009.Mar.15 Sunday

 Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.” – Blaise Pascal, mathematician, philosopher, physicist Buenos Aires – There was simply no reason for the place to be empty. Not the night [...]

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School’s in Session

2009.Mar.14 Saturday

 I learned just enough in school to figure out that everything is not all there is to know.” – Anonymous Buenos Aires – Someone asked me yesterday if we’re still offering classes. The answer is yes – we just happen to be in the middle of two longer term series: a third round of our [...]

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Italian Riviera

2009.Mar.13 Friday

 Few Americans have heard of these tiny villages, set like jewels into the Ligurian Coast and known as the Cinque Terre. The Cinque Terre is one of those places people tend to read about once and then dream about forever.” – Hidden Gems on the Italian Riviera, Los Angeles Times Buenos Aires – As usual, [...]

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Vacation Books

2009.Mar.10 Tuesday

 I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.” – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951 Buenos Aires – One of the things I like about vacationing by myself is [...]

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