SaltShaker

 I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all.”
- Ogden Nash
Buenos Aires - The city of Buenos Aires has declared war on billboards, with the intent to remove some 60% of them, roughly 40,000, from the various barrios, calling [...]

 It is important to understand the basic differences between the wild yeast of sourdough and the commercial baker’s yeast in most other breads. First sourdough yeast grow best in acidic doughs, while baker’s yeast does better in neutral or slightly alkaline doughs. Baker’s yeast is a single species, with hundreds of strains and varieties, while [...]

 Sherry… a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.”
- George Borrow, English Novelist
Buenos Aires - I’m going to give you the one sentence basics of sherry, formerly called [...]

 As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to [...]

 It’s a queer thing is a man’s soul. It is the whole of him. Which means it is the unknown him, as well as the known.”
- D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
Buenos Aires - As noted about a week and a half ago, I expect(ed) a few more intereviews about Casa SaltShaker to be [...]

 You shouldn’t speak until you know what you’re talking about. That’s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? They hand me a script. I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.”
- Brad Pitt, Actor
Buenos Aires - A [...]

 We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.”
- Barbara Ehrenreich, Columnist, Political Activist
Buenos Aires - Some of you may remember I mentioned back in November that we’d had a telelvision film crew in for one of our dinners (their idea, not ours, though in a moment of mental [...]

 I’ve become wary of interviews in which you’re forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you’ve done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.”
- Peter Weir, Film Director
Buenos Aires - Just a quick “check out the interview” with FoodCandy, a much anticipated Q&A [...]