From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Something Old, Something New

2009.Jun.13 Saturday

 Chinese people say Marco Polo brought noodles from China back to Italy and Italians say they had noodles before that. All this has been based on documentary material, on personal accounts and menus. But we’ve been unable to find any actual material until now.” – Lu Houyuan, geologist/geophysicist Buenos Aires – The new? Barrio Chino, [...]

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More Electronic Reading

2009.Jun.12 Friday

As some portion of the world seems to move more and more into the electronic reading world, the opportunities keep opening up. So in addition to my dictionary being available via Kindle, for those of you who have one (or on iPhone or iTouch with the Kindle application installed), as I noted last week, the [...]

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Mr. T’s Pizza

2009.Jun.11 Thursday

 The test of a great pizza is its irresistible crust. If you have never had a pizza with a thin grilled curst, you will love its crispy texture and charred flavor.” – from Grilled Pizzas & Piadinas by Craig W. Priebe Buenos Aires – The quote above comes from one of my relatively new favorite [...]

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Hyeonchung-il

2009.Jun.10 Wednesday

 True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” – Arthur Ashe, activist and tennis pro Buenos Aires – The title is not the name of “Dear Leader” in North Korea, but, in South Korea this [...]

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Not so Poor, Louis

2009.Jun.07 Sunday

 Not bad. Not bad at all.” – Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady Buenos Aires – Continued on this last week with a visit to another of the septet of parrillas that Dereck Foster listed off in the Herald a few weeks back. We headed out to Belgrano, to El Pobre Luis, Arribeños 2393, 4780-5847, [...]

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Singin’ Like a Canary

2009.Jun.06 Saturday

 there is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.” – Robert Louis Stevenson Buenos Aires – Lanzarote or Tenerife? That seems to be the only real question when it comes to the Canary Islands. At least for tourists. I gather the former if [...]

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Vertically Challenged

2009.Jun.02 Tuesday

 If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” – T.S. Eliot, writer It’s too late at night to write a coherent post. Let me just note that my taxi driver was tall. Really tall. Like seat back as far as it would go and still knees up on [...]

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