A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
“Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.” – Richard Bach, Author Buenos Aires – A century ago, the largest uncut gem-quality diamond ever found… was found. Known as the Cullinan Diamond after… Read More A Gem of a Dinner
“Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I’ve always called myself an illustrator. I’m not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.” – Norman Rockwell, Illustrator (per his… Read More Illustrative Dinner
“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.” – G.K. Chesterton, Novelist, Essayist Buenos Aires – Breaking bread is our bread and butter, which requires bread, and butter, but even buttering up… Read More Our Bread and Butter
“On the night before his coronation, Sir Hari and his peers dined off the traditional gold plate, while their underlings supped from silver. Next day he rode out at the head of the state procession of elephants. His favorite pony, which trotted after, was decked with a jeweled harness, containing among other gems an emerald… Read More Land of Nightingales and Roses
“Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada…. Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.” – Paul Prudhomme, Chef Buenos Aires – You’d think, given the constant harping about lack of… Read More How Y’All Are?
“…I intend writing a history of my wanderings in the Banda Oriental, and I will call my book “The Purple Land”; for what more suitable name can one find for a country so stained with the blood of her children? You will never read it, of course, for I shall write it in English, and… Read More The Purple Land
“Does anyone make better soup than the Portuguese? I doubt it. Certainly no one makes better bread. And no one, I suspect, knows more ways to prepare salt cod.” – Jean Anderson, The Food of Portugal Buenos Aires – I’m going to claim a complete lack of creativity… more or less. I don’t know a… Read More Sailing the High Seas
My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissentions with those who are embarked in the same great national interest with, myself; as every difference of this kind must in its consequence be very injurious.” – General George Washington Buenos… Read More Harmony Reigns