Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” – J.R.R. Tolkein,… Read More Visiting the Shire
“Light the candles and pour the red wine into your glass. Before you begin to eat, raise your glass in honor of yourself. The company is the best you’ll ever have.” – Daniel Halpern, Poet, from How to Eat Alone Buenos Aires – A group of local wine aficionados contacted me for a little private… Read More Red, Red Wine
“Attention K-Mart shoppers, there’s a blue light special on…” Buenos Aires – It was more than a moment of indecision, it was days of indecision. Two events on the calendar for the weekend – Independence Day in Mexico and the traditional New Year’s Day in Persia, long before it became Iran. Was it to be… Read More Two for One
Buenos Aires – Just a couple of photos today, as I’m on the run, so to speak. Taught a couple of “classes” this week here at Casa S – a nice steak lunch, similar to the one I described a week ago, though we made a coarser chimichurri, and instead of two kinds of potatoes,… Read More Scenes from the Kitchen Classroom
The RMS Lusitania, or “The Lucy” as she was affectionately known, was launched on Thursday, 7 June 1906, at the shipyard of John Brown & Co., Clydebank. She was built as a result of negotiations between the British Government and Cunard Line to build two superliners capable of taking back the Blue Riband for the… Read More Full Speed Ahead
“Whether Moldova or Transnistria are nations is a question for 100 or 400 years ago.” – Ryan Lanham, Identity Unknown Buenos Aires – I knew nothing, truly nothing, about the nation-state of Transnistria, as it is known in English, or the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic as others know it. It’s a conflict which I’ve probably seen… Read More Declaration of Dinner
But what a witch is Spring! Into the great cold city of stone and iron a message had to be sent. There was none to convey it but the little hardy courier of the fields with his rough green coat and modest air. He is a true soldier of fortune, this dent-de-lion — this lion’s… Read More Lion’s Tooth Pesto
“…a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the thistles as well are edible.” – John Leonard, Australian Poet Buenos Aires – On August 24th, 1853, chef George Crum, of the Moon Lake Lodge Resort in Saratoga Springs, New York invented the Saratoga Chip, the very first potato chip.… Read More Winter Veggies