Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) – Vegetarians from around the world pledged Sunday to convert millions of meat-eaters by the end of the century and launched an Asian Vegetarian Union. The Bangkok-based Asian group seeks to foster the still-fledgling vegetarian movements in many Asian countries and counter a trend among the continent’s youth to ape Western… Read More Countering Carnivorous Habits
Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations.” – Hu Jintao, President, People’s Repulbic of China Buenos Aires – I admit it, I didn’t participate in any exchange student programs during… Read More Student Culture
“World Ocean Day began on June 8, 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is is an opportunity every year to honor the oceans and products they provide, such as seafood, as well as marinelife itself. The oceans also provide sea-lanes for international trade. Global pollution and over-consumption of fish have… Read More Fishing the Waters of Brazil
“The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can’t eat it.” – Victor Jules Bergeron (Trader Vic) Buenos Aires – Never having been to any of the eighteen islands and islets that make up Samoa, and that would fit, combined, comfortably into the state of Rhode Island, I’d be hard-pressed to even guess at… Read More Supping Samoan Style
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.” – Christopher Columbus, explorer Buenos Aires – I know, you’ve been waiting for it. It’s not like I could take a class in various techniques and not try them out here and there. No worries that… Read More Grasping for Air
“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” – Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Buenos Aires – What to do when there are competing themes for an… Read More Theme Wars
“Ultimately however, marriage is a moral issue that requires cultural consensus, and the use of social sanctions. Bearing babies irresponsibly is, simply, wrong. Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn’t help matters when prime time TV has Murphy Brown – a character who supposedly epitomizes… Read More Quayle vs Murphy Revisited
History loves a paradox, and there can be none greater than a taste for spices being responsible for the exploration of our planet. Sovereigns pledged their prestige, and navigators risked their lives, not in the quest for gold or the thirst for power but to redirect the distribution of a few inessential and today almost… Read More Spice Story