A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
“I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.” – Beryl Markham, English Aviator Buenos Aires – One of the fun things about… Read More Southeast Asian Inspiration
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” – Oscar Wilde, Poet, Novelist, Critic Buenos Aires – Yesterday morning started off with another round of our cheese tasting group. This week it was a trio of simple “Argentine blues” – no further designation like “roquefort”, “gorgonzola”, “cabrales”, or “stilton”. Just “blue“.… Read More A Day of Tastings
“SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.” -Ambrose Bierce, Writer, Devil’s Dictionary Buenos Aires – It took me a while… Read More Regular (Peruvian) Sauce
“Cheese is milk’s leap towards immortality.” – Clifton Fadiman, Radio Show Host, Information Please (1938-1948) Buenos Aires – A few weeks ago I was invited to participate in a series of cheese tastings sponsored by ArgentineWines.com. I’m not exactly clear the purpose of these tastings – I thought I was – but it seems that… Read More Who Cut the Cheese?
How lush, how loose, the uninhibited squash is. If ever hearts (and these immoderate leaves Are vegetable hearts) were worn on sleeves, The squash’s are. In green the squash vine gushes. The flowers are cornucopias of summer, Briefly exuberant and cheaply golden. And if they make a show of being hidden, Are open promiscuously to… Read More Squash Curry
“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” – Ursula K. LeGuin, Science Fiction Writer Buenos Aires – Such slanderous words written against the eggplant! And from one of my favorite science fiction authors. And the white eggplant has… Read More Spicy Apples of Madness
“Whoever would be cured of ignorance must first confess it.” – Michel de Montaigne, 16th Century French Philosopher and Writer Buenos Aires – There must be something in the air related to time and energy. Sally over at A Broad in Costa Rica just posted on the confusion over not having daylight saving time, in… Read More A Pound of Cure is Worth More than any Prevention
“Newspapers will run a headline: ‘Shark kills human.’ You never see a headline from the other perspective: ‘Man swims in shark-infested water, forgets he’s shark food.” – Gary Larson, Cartoonist – The Far Side Buenos Aires – On the part of the shark, I imagine that there’s not a whole lot of cognitive function that… Read More The Pink Stick of the Basques…