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 [...]
Cheddar Vision
… and, it’s year-round!
A square egg in a dish of lentils won’t make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid’s leg.”
- Les Dawson, British Comedian
Buenos Aires - That’s so pretty, I should just let it speak for itself. And, for the moment, I will. Sunday was a whirlwind of activity [...]
Only for the phony is commercialism - the bending of creativity to common utility - a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.”
- Ernest A. Jones, Advertising Executive, Address at Cranbrook Academy of Art, June 2, 1964
Buenos Aires -Somewhere around a [...]
Buenos Aires - The new Summer/Autumn 2007 issue of Time Out Buenos Aires has hit the racks. I have a feature article on vegetarian dining, along with a dozen and a half new restaurant reviews in this edition.
Casa SaltShaker also got nice writeups in both the review section and as part of a feature [...]
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Pilot and Author
Buenos Aires - It’s been awhile [...]
When things strike me as funny
I can’t hide it inside
And squeak - as the squeakelers do
I’ve got to let go with a ho-ho-ho…
And a ha-ha-ha…too!”
- From “I Love to Laugh”, song in Mary Poppins
Buenos Aires - I was looking for some information on the bean. I ended up on a bizarre, ultra-conservative website; the electronic [...]
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- Horace Walpole
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"...it’s more a “homemade means you don’t have enough money for store-bought” thing, which seems to be a leftover credo for many of us forced to eat, say, a liverwurst sandwich made on mom’s homemade rye when our classmates were unwrapping a PB & J on Wonder Bread. Some of us, refugees from the convenience-in-a-can 1950s, learned early that store-bought was cool, and homemade was… well, HOMEMADE. Some of us, unfortunately, have never forgotten that lesson." - Baker's Banter
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