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 The… difference is that of attitude. But that difference determines who gets ideas and who does not. An apathetic or hostile attitude is the enemy of creative thought. Ideas, like people, flourish when they are welcomed and embraced.”
- Barbara J. Winter, Teacher, Author
Buenos Aires - I arrived about ten to fifteen minutes before the first […]

 Those quotation marks around “cooked” have been driving me nuts for years. Virtually every mention of ceviche (seh-VEE-chay; I’ll use the Spanish spelling) by food writers is accompanied by a gratuitous statement to the effect that lime juice does to protein what heat does to protein, and therefore that the fish is essentially “cooked” by […]

 A guy works all day, he don’t want to look at his plate and ask, “What the fuck is this?” He wants to look at his plate, see a steak, and say “I like steak!”
- Ian Holm, as Pascal, in Big Night
Buenos Aires - In my life, I have had two tasting menu meals that […]

 The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.”
- Diana Vreeland, Fashion magazine editor
Buenos Aires - Regular readers might remember my recent negative encounter at the Palacio Duhau Park Hyatt during the Masters of Food & Wine. I mentioned that I received apologies from one (and […]

 I don’t trust him. He likes people, and you can never count on a man like that.”
- Burt Lancaster as Joe Erin in Vera Cruz (1954)
Buenos Aires - I like people. I like food. I like restaurants. So maybe you shouldn’t count on my opinion here. Except maybe because I really wanted to like this […]

 Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks.”
- Anonymous
Buenos Aires - You know us, always on the lookout for a new Peruvian restaurant, and especially one that either a) serves authentic Trujillana cuisine, which Henry is convinced […]

 You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”
- Yogi Berra, former Baseball Player and Manager
Buenos Aires - It’s been a pizza kind of week, and part of that, as always, is the search for better and better pizza in town. A couple that came to my attention […]

 And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven’t yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture […]