SaltShaker

 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 of Extremadura, [...]

 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 here on [...]

 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 [...]

 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 [...]

 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 one I’m [...]

 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 I was [...]

 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 ten session [...]

 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, it was [...]