SaltShaker

 [America’s] first settlers were emigrants from different European nations, and of diversified professions of religion, retiring from governmental persecutions of the old world, and meeting in the new, not as enemies, but as brothers. The wants which necessarily accompany the cultivation of a wilderness, produced among them a state of society, which countries, long harassed […]

 A waiter arrived with a tray of falafel, the one item on the menu that didn’t taste as if it had been scraped off the wick of Aladdin’s lamp.”
- Tom Robbins, skinny legs and all
Buenos Aires - Continuing on my educational journey about one cuisine or another or method of cooking, I noted in passing, […]

 …born in a mansion and died in a shack…”
- from A Fierce Green Fire by Marybeth Lorbiecki
Buenos Aires - I’ve been to the barrio of Barracas (literally “shacks”) before, but always with a particular destination in mind. A friend suggested we take a real wander through the neighborhood - perhaps over time more than one, […]

 One could argue that these [today’s] ‘plagues’ are fundamentally different than the ones in the Passover story because they can be seen as humankind’s own creations and not sent by God.
- Dan Weiss, Only 10 plagues? Early Egyptians had it easy
Buenos Aires - Most Jewish kids I knew when I was growing up dreaded Passover. […]

 In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.”
- Thomas Carlyle, Philosopher
Buenos Aires - Just a few random notes…
Disco, one of the local supermarkets, is three deep with people at the meat, i.e., beef, counter. With the 30-day suspension of the strike, people are battling over the packages of red meat like they’re […]

 There is no symbolism for the “disappeared”. They were taken away without a trace. That was part of the terror tactic: the permanent anguish it caused the family. It is described like living with a ghost; they are not dead, but they are not alive either. The idea that some day they might return (although […]

 We are all in deep thought, hurting, wanting to say something that will help us understand. Whatever we have to say probably pales in comparison to what those who have gone on would say to us.”
- Eugene Habecker, President, Taylor University
Buenos Aires - It’s not all food, wine, and architecture you know. There’s alot going […]

 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 […]