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Fish Gotta Swim…

2011.Feb.05 Saturday

 I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don’t know what’s on the other end. Your imagination is under there.” – Robert Altman, Director My recent trip up to San Pedro got me thinking about the various fish that are available to eat here in Buenos Aires and surrounds. It is [...]

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Chronicles of Shawarma – Book VI

2010.Dec.02 Thursday

 Then she was given dinner with all the nice parts left out and sent to bed for two solid hours. It was a thing that happened to one quite often in those days.” – from C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, Book 6, Chronicles of Narnia It’s been quite some time since my last shawarma update, [...]

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Koreatown Caution

2010.Mar.10 Wednesday

I’ve hesitated a few days about writing this up, mostly because I don’t want family and friends to be worried about living here in BA, nor people who don’t really know the city to take this as a sign of insecurity here in town. In the end though, it’s not something that couldn’t have happened [...]

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Feedback on the Feedback

2009.Jul.11 Saturday

 What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” – Pericles, ancient Greek statesman Buenos Aires – It amazes me sometimes how close of attention people pay to details here and on our Casa S site. I made a couple of minor changes [...]

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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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Double Standards

2009.Apr.28 Tuesday

 The “double speak” in tourism material, in a country as new and immature as Argentina is to tourism, is lamentably common, much like the “double price” (for foreigners versus locals) that many practice since the devaluation of the peso, starting with our own Argentine government. That “native cunning”, along with the inefficiency of domestic air [...]

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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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Peru Fusion Day Two

2009.Mar.17 Tuesday

 The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be.” – Dore Schary, producer Buenos Aires – I was originally going to do a compare and contrast between my last spot reviewed, PozoSanto, and the [...]

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How Do I Make…?

2008.Nov.23 Sunday

 Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom?” – Terry Pratchett, Author Buenos Aires – Bored? Sitting at home wishing you had something to do, something to stimulate your interest, your intellect, your skills, your tastebuds? In town for just [...]

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