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 A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”
- Alan Patrick Herbert, Novelist
Buenos Aires - I decline to enter the debate, and yes, there is a debate - well, more like hotly contested opinions - as to what constitutes a true merguez sausage. Given that merguez simply means […]

 Three faces wears the doctor:
When first sought,
An angel’s and a god’s the cure half-wrought;
But when, the cure complete he seeks his fee,
The devil looks less terrible than he.
- Unknown (quoted in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations)
Buenos Aires - A few weeks back I ran a post about my sausage making and meat curing class. It was a […]

 Vegetarian has long been used as the human equivalent of herbivore, which — along with carnivore — has traditionally been applied to nonhuman animals, for the good reason that vorare means not simply ‘eat’ but ‘eat like a wild animal’ (hence devour). The ending -arian generally denotes a conscious adherence, in contrast to the genetic […]

 The egg standing myth was born with an article penned by Annalee Jacoby in the March 19, 1945 issue of Life magazine. Ms. Jacoby was on assignment in China at that time, when she witnessed a peculiar Chinese ritual. In China, the first day of spring is called Li Chun, and they reckon it to […]

 To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
- from Life of Pi
Buenos Aires - I do seem to be falling behind on the dinner posts… hmm… well, I’ll try to get caught back up. Here we are a week after Pi Day, which, of course, […]

 I was the main complainer about not having my favorite dishes, and then someone suggested that I open my own restaurant.”
- Gary Edwards, Owner, Sister Sue’s, Asbury Park
Buenos Aires - Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that while Casa S is getting busier and busier, especially with private events, that I spend more time […]

 There’s a thousand little things that go into making a great-tasting sausage, … It’s just attention to detail, every darn one.”
- Ralph Stayer, President, Johnsonville Foods
Buenos Aires - One of the cool things about being in a sort of multi-tasking lifestyle these days, i.e., I don’t have one job that I go to six days […]

 Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.”
- Anna Magnani, actress
Buenos Aires - You may have noticed that recently our Casa S themes have been getting more and more offbeat - moving away from various Republic Days and Independence Days and such. It’s only semi-intentional - part of the problem […]