https://www.saltshaker.net/20050928/a-garden-of-my-own Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Tue, 07 Jul 2015 03:11:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050928/a-garden-of-my-own#comment-521 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 14:08:43 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050928/a-garden-of-my-own#comment-521 […] Buenos Aires – I recently “celebrated” the one year anniversary of this blog, and given that I launched into it as I began my adventures outside of New York, it’s no surprise that another birthday pops up. My arrival in Buenos Aires to, potentially at that point, live, was July 2, 2005, a grey, drizzly day punctuated only by the food experience of my first provoletta, and a mediocre one at that. Wow! A year here already, amazing how time flies, it sometimes feels like I’ve barely arrived, and other times like I’ve been here for quite a long time. I’ve learned a new language, explored a new culture (with much left on both counts to accomplish), I’ve been in a happy, live-in relationship for the entire time, I bought an apartment in a “foreign” country, I’ve opened a business there as well, experienced a cyclone, been threatened by border guards in Bolivia… Not things I would have predicted a mere twelve months ago. […]

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