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Books & Other Media

Over to You…

2009.Oct.30 Friday

A question for regular, and irregular, readers of the blog. As many of you know, I’ve been hard at work on a Casa SaltShaker cookbook. Part of me wants to have it simply be a recipe book, with a touch of the background and the story behind some of the dishes, and part wants to [...]

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Smelling Vibrations

2009.Oct.18 Sunday

 The question that women casually shopping for perfume ask more than any other is this: “What scent drives men wild?” After years of intense research, we know the definitive answer. It is bacon. Now, on to the far more interesting subject of perfume…” – Luca Turin, biophysicist This is just one of those geeky things [...]

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Mindless Memes

2009.Aug.01 Saturday

Here’s one of those mindless memes that’s going around via one group of bloggers or another – I extended it a little – the original was to type the first three letters of your first name into Google and list/link the first five sites that popped up – I figure, despite its ubiquity, there are [...]

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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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Electro-Readers

2009.May.31 Sunday

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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Sale!

2009.May.04 Monday

Friends, family & fans 10% off intro sale on new edition of my book direct from publisher until May 10th! Click here Go ahead, you know you’ve been wanting to buy a copy….

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Standards

2009.May.02 Saturday

 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 [...]

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Second Time Around

2009.Apr.19 Sunday

 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. [...]

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