SaltShaker

 All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan, Scientist
Buenos Aires - For those of you not familiar with bit-torrents, don’t go searching to find out, they’re addictive little [...]

Buenos Aires - First off, a Happy New Year, or Happy Rosh Hashanah, or Shana Tova, in particular to any of my Jewish readers, friends, neighbors… though really, to everyone - today begins the year 5768, and we’ll just have to see what it has in store for SaltShaker, my life, and the lives of [...]

 The wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the revolution in American food that has made exotic ingredients, celebrity chefs, rarefied cooking tools, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives.”
- back cover blurb from…
Buenos Aires - …The United States of Arugula, by David Kamp, catchy title, no? Wish I’d have thought of it first. [...]

 It’s hard to say how far they walked. They were in the forest for nine months, eating snails and leaves and whatever they could get.”
- David Brandon
Buenos Aires - I’ve just finished reading through the famed The Whole Beats: nose to tail eating by Fergus Henderson, a fun little recipe book for the use of [...]

 Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don’t live up to their promises.”
- John Dobbin
Buenos Aires - I was just subjected to… well, no, I just subjected myself to… I mean, I didn’t have to say yes… watching [...]

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Food & Wine Dictionary
The dictionary is back, for those of you who’ve been asking - it’s finally been published in soft-cover version and is available from a print on demand publisher. Hopefully it’ll get picked up by some folks like Amazon and others… It is, as [...]

There’s a book out, and has been for awhile now, called Hungry Planet, by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio. It’s a photo essay of families from around the world each seated around a table with a week’s worth of groceries. Time magazine has just published an online selection of fifteen of those photos along with [...]

 We relish the opportunity of finding something new and different to eat wherever we go, whether it is part of an extended travel experience to a far destination or simply to a treasured friend’s table down the street. On The Road is our way of sharing the pleasure and adventure of food discovery through the [...]