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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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One Last Look at Comida Trujillana

2007.Feb.22 Thursday

Trujillo, Peru – At least for now, this is my roundup post on Trujillo and its food, and meeting Henry’s family. I’m going to let the photos speak for themselves for the most part… these are some of the highlights of the visit. We spent an hour at a horse show one afternoon at a [...]

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Lost in Traducción

2007.Jan.29 Monday

 The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.” – Edwin Booth, Actor Buenos Aires – There are myriad internet sites out there that talk about the world of mistranslation. In the food [...]

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Six Degrees of Separation

2007.Jan.10 Wednesday

 Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that human beings are connected through relationships with at most six other people. Several studies, such as Milgram’s small world experiment have been conducted to empirically measure this connectedness. While the exact number of links between people differs depending on the population measured, it is generally found [...]

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Crawling Around

2006.Dec.29 Friday

 When I was a kid, life was good. I had some GrrAnimals clothes, and they were all prematched. On the tags they had animals, and the lion shirt went with the lion pants. The giraffe shirt went with the giraffe pants. And then they played into each other, like the lion stuff would also go [...]

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Power of the Press

2006.Dec.26 Tuesday

 The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.” – Karl Kraus, Austrian Journalist Buenos Aires – It seems that among the many things that fascinate people headed here for vacation or business or an expat life, is the interaction between the press back wherever they’re from, and how it [...]

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Another Spirited Evening

2006.Nov.05 Sunday

 Stan Laurel: “We drank your liqueur.” Mrs Laurel: “That wasn’t liqueur, it was cold tea.” – From Blotto, 1930 Buenos Aires – About a month and a half ago here at Casa S we put on a dinner featuring spirits and liqueurs from what is arguably Argentina’s finest distillery, Tapaus. The food was received to [...]

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Red Tape

2006.Sep.14 Thursday

Buenos Aires – As I noted the other day, I’m in the midst of working on a longer term visa. One of the things that Argentina requires for all documentation that comes from other countries, is something called an Apostille. This is basically a certification from an office such as the Secretary of State in [...]

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Gold Rush Fever

2006.Sep.12 Tuesday

“The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.” – Logan Pearsall Smith, early 20th Century American Essayist Buenos Aires – Giving and taking advice is one of the most dangerous passtimes [...]

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