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What Debate?

2008.Sep.27 Saturday

 The same me that stands here now When I think that all this stuff Can make a life that’s pretty hard to take it in, that was me That was me, ya, that was me!” – Paul McCartney, final lyrics to That Was Me Buenos Aires – I wasn’t a member of the debate club [...]

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Hitting the Sack

2008.Jul.07 Monday

 Sherry… a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.” – George Borrow, English Novelist Buenos Aires – I’m going to give you the one sentence basics of sherry, [...]

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And One More For The Road

2007.Dec.29 Saturday

 Calmness,” said Aaron quietly, “is a drink we can buy in the bar next door. Come.” – from One More For The Road, by Ray Bradbury Buenos Aires – Virtually everyone who visits this town, and many who live here, comment regularly on the bus system. Apparently buses are the theme of the day, as [...]

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Aversity or Adversity…?

2007.Nov.21 Wednesday

 I’m not going to make calf’s brains. But at a certain point, I’d like to retain the permission to do something that’s delicious — to have the chance to win them over.” – from The Finicky Gourmet by Alexandra Jacobs, in the NY Times Buenos Aires – There’s no question that I’ve invited this surplus [...]

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Fount of Wisdom? Not.

2007.Nov.03 Saturday

 I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.” – Igor Stravinsky, Composer Buenos Aires – Does blogging, or this blog in particular need, or even merit a defense? Is there any point to it? What [...]

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New and Improved

2007.Jul.24 Tuesday

Click here to purchase the SaltShaker Spanish – English – Spanish Food & Wine Dictionary The dictionary is back, for those of you who’ve been asking – it’s finally been published in soft-cover version and is available from a print on demand publisher. Hopefully it’ll get picked up by some folks like Amazon and others… [...]

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Dos Años

2007.Jul.02 Monday

Buenos Aires – I was all set to spend a little time catching up on some of the reviews I’ve been wanting to do when I happened to glance at the calendar and something about the date reminded me of my time here in Buenos Aires. I’ve been thinking that I’d arrived in early June, [...]

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Kindred Spirits

2007.May.10 Thursday

 We relish the opportunity of finding something new and different to eat wherever we go, whether it is part of an extended travel experience to a far destination or simply to a treasured friend’s table down the street. On The Road is our way of sharing the pleasure and adventure of food discovery through the [...]

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Ají­ de Gallina

2007.Mar.28 Wednesday

 What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen. – Alice B. Toklas Buenos Aires – I’ve been promising on and off since our trip to Perú that I’d share a step-by-step how-to for ají de [...]

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