A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.” – Erma Bombeck, Advice Columnist Buenos Aires – My instructions were simple – as befits those coming from a group… Read More Hot Island Hopping
“Absurdity, only you are pure. Absurdity, only before you is this excess sweated out of golden pleasure. – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet and writer Buenos Aires – This last weekend we celebrated the 115th birthday of Peruvian poet César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza. He wasn’t in attendance, having moved on in 1938. But it gave us… Read More Peru Prandial
Another interesting aspect of tomato’s rise to popularity was the debate whether it should be classified as a fruit or a vegetable. While this might seem trivial to most, its classification was greatly important to those who first grew it commercially because of taxation and import tariffs established to protect American vegetable growers. The issue… Read More The State Fruit of New Jersey
Wai-Tung Gao: I don’t know, we should have moved you out. Simon: I’ll survive. Wai-Tung Gao: Not if Wei Wei keeps cooking – from The Wedding Banquet Buenos Aires – My computer is acting up, so apologies if my posts are a bit scattered over the next few days… we shall see where I get… Read More The Wedding Banquet
“It was almost two. At that hour, weighted down by drowsiness, the town was taking a siesta. The stores, the town offices, the public school were closed at eleven, and didn’t reopen until a little before four, when the train went back. Only the hotel across from the station, with its bar and pool hall,… Read More Tuesday Fiesta
On behalf of the Hindu community, we have done significant progress to correct the biases and distortions in the textbooks. We need to work further. There are gross inaccuracies.” – Khanderao Kand, Hindu Education Foundation Buenos Aires – India is the seventh largest country on the planet by geography, and the second most populated. The… Read More “Hindu” Teaser
“Better the gurgling of a camel than the prayers of a fish.” – Moroccan proverb Buenos Aires – I’d been wanting to offer a middle eastern dinner of some sort for awhile, and Independence Day in Morocco seemed the perfect opportunity. I like the cuisine from that country in particular, because for me it embodies… Read More Shake Your Maracas!
“Only for the phony is commercialism – the bending of creativity to common utility – a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.” – Ernest A. Jones, Advertising Executive, Address at Cranbrook Academy of Art, June 2, 1964 Buenos Aires –Somewhere… Read More Joining the eCommerce World