From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Two Takes on Steaks

2009.May.09 Saturday

 Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They’re dying, of course, but they look terrific.” – Bill Cosby Buenos Aires – A couple of weeks ago, Dereck Foster of The Buenos Aires Herald published a [...]

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A World Apart

2009.May.07 Thursday

 Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt Buenos Aires – Forget that it looks like you’ve just stepped onto the set of an Austin Powers movie. Forget that you are surrounded by strip clubs and telos. Just relax and let [...]

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Life is a Cabaret

2009.May.04 Monday

 Take a lesson from this old Parisian And the finest entertainment she/he has known. Folies Bergères What a showing of color, costume, and dancing! Not a moment in life could be more entrancing Than an evening you spend aux Folies Bergères.” – lyrics from Folies Bergères Buenos Aires – Being the 140th anniversary of the [...]

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Sale!

2009.May.04 Monday

Friends, family & fans 10% off intro sale on new edition of my book direct from publisher until May 10th! Click here Go ahead, you know you’ve been wanting to buy a copy….

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Sugar Bird

2009.May.03 Sunday

 I love your jellyroll. It do’s me good deep down in my soul. – Lonnie Johnson, from the lyrics to He’s a Jelly Roll Baker Buenos Aires – This odd looking thing is a pionono de pollo or arrollado de pollo. The pionono itself is the cake that’s wrapped around the outside, and, make no [...]

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But did you taste it first?

2009.May.02 Saturday

The ideal customer doesn’t come to El Bulli to eat,” Adria has declared, “but to have an experience,” inadvertently revealing not just the purpose of the operation, but also that there is an ideal customer, which may very well not be you, who merely wants to eat. The fact that eating is rather low down [...]

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Standards

2009.May.02 Saturday

 I try to live up to my standards and not sink down to my principles. – paraphrase of an old movie quote that I can’t quite remember, but it fits… Buenos Aires – The blogosphere is abuzz, yes abuzz I tell you. First it was a week or two ago’s big kerfuffle over Dr. Vino [...]

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