A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
“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
“It’s the lore of the North that allows a traveller caught in a blizzard to break into a cabin for food and warmth in order to keep body and soul together. But what about breaking into an expensive condo just before Christmas, ripping open all the presents hoping to find chocolates, raiding the fridge and… Read More More Than Filadelfia
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a new hat.” – axiom for any proper traveler… Buenos Aires – As I’ve mentioned a couple of times recently, my new hat is “cheese making student”. It’s one of those things that I was always curious about, principally, I suppose, because I really like cheese, but… Read More Cheesy Beginnings
…there was always the risk of dating someone who’d owned a lunch box with my picture on it.” – Shaun Cassidy, Pop Singer/Actor Buenos Aires – There’s nothing like a really good use of some leftovers. In this case, the mamaliga from this weekend’s dinners. More or less the Eastern European version of polenta, I… Read More From the Lunch Pail