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… Read More Palace Dining
“There’s a thousand little things that go into making a great-tasting sausage, … It’s just attention to detail, every darn one.” – Ralph Stayer, President, Johnsonville Foods Buenos Aires – One of the cool things about being in a sort of multi-tasking lifestyle these days, i.e., I don’t have one job that I go to… Read More Filled and Tied
“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… Read More South of the Border…
Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.” – Anna Magnani, actress Buenos Aires – You may have noticed that recently our Casa S themes have been getting more and more offbeat – moving away from various Republic Days and Independence Days and such. It’s only semi-intentional – part of… Read More Mamma Roma
“Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.” – Samuel Johnson, poet, writer Buenos Aires – ‘Twas a busy weekend, with both a couple of regular Casa S dinners and a private event hosted by an engaged couple (norteamericano and argentine) to let their families get to know each other. I won’t… Read More Argy with a Twist
“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… Read More Just Fish
In November 1889, the young army officer Felicíssimo do Espírito Santo Cardoso handed a dismissal letter to Dom Pedro II and conducted the Emperor to the ship that would carry him into exile. That act was more symbolic of the change from monarchy to republic than Field Marshal Deodoro’s cry of “Long live the Republic!”… Read More Paint by Numbers 5
“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It is, as common people say, so ‘upsetting;’ it makes you think that, after all, your favourite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded; it is certain that till now there was no place allotted in your mind to… Read More Gamboling