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 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 little cookbooks. [...]

For those of you who have one, Amazon just put out a Kindle version of the second edition of my dictionary, and they’re offering it for a limited time at a great intro deal price! And also, if I understand the technology right, Kindle documents can now be read on some (all?) versions of an [...]

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Go ahead, you know you’ve been wanting to buy a copy….

 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 calling out [...]

 Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
- George Bernard Shaw, critic, essayist, playwright

Buenos Aires – Just shy of two years since the original edition’s publication, the second edition of my bilingual Spanish and English food and wine dictionary was officially approved today. It will [...]

 I’ve been thinking about changing my major from Home Economics to Feminist Studies, but I wasn’t sure if you had any feminist cooking classes.”
- Bunny, from the movie about to be reviewed…
Buenos Aires – A couple of months ago I mentioned the movie Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, in passing, and realized [...]

 I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.”
- E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
Buenos Aires – One of the things I like about vacationing by myself is that in [...]

 We don’t care if these girls want to eat their men. That’s the Piranha Man’s problem. We just want the avocados.”
- Ford Maddox, in Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle
Buenos Aires – Can I just say that I find this video, the winner of the Avocado Video Bowl… mildly disturbing? (sorry, I can’t figure out [...]