A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
“The chain letter is the cockroach of communication, an unwanted visitor that interrupts our routine with a strange voodoo incantation, promising luck and threatening misfortune. But for some reason, we pass this parasite on to the future, happy to see it go, little thinking that we are really only mailing it back to ourselves.” –… Read More The Butterfly Effect II
Buenos Aires – Monday afternoon I got a call from a friend who needed a little help that’s right up my alley. His girlfriend had had a recent operation and wasn’t yet able to cook for a dinner party last night that they’d planned, and he wanted to know if I’d come over and play… Read More Mix-and-Match
Buenos Aires – There’s a myth floating around out there that this city is unfriendly towards vegetarians. Maybe even to just those who LIKE vegetables. (In fact, on a recent local forum during a discussion of vegetarian restaurants I was referred to as “somehow a veggy fan, though not fundamentalist on it.” Somehow? Makes it… Read More Eat Your Veggies!
Buenos Aires – Many moons ago, I had a catering company. My friend Lee, whom I met in cooking school, and I, had this idea for a sort of deli and catering company (oh, and, Happy Birthday Lee! It’s his 50-something’th birthday today). We incorporated – Somewhere Else Catering Inc. – in fact, technically, I… Read More Cold Lunch
Buenos Aires – …or tangerines as we would probably call them, and they’re beauties. It wouldn’t have seemed to me to be the season for them, but suddenly they’re appearing at fruit and vegetable stands all over the city. My local favorite spot had a couple of 6′ stacks of crates of them, and they… Read More Mandarinas…
Buenos Aires – It shouldn’t be any surprise that classics, especially in the culinary world, are often among the best food experiences. You can get as excited as you want about foams, gels, and airs cooked up in a laboratory. They’re all well and good, but ethereal as many of them may be, there are… Read More Classic Terrine
Buenos Aires – It was a weekend of Andean cultural events for us. Saturday evening kicked it off with an outing to a peña in San Telmo. A peña is a sort of social hall type club. In this case, a group called Peña Jujeña Cumpas, rented out the basement of a catholic social center,… Read More Los Cumpas & La Cebichada
Buenos Aires – Much as the Palio kicked off last week, a chance for much Italian regional pride and competition, the encierro kicked off yesterday, a chance for much idiocy and injury, as folks attempt to chase, be chased, and hopefully outrun, a bunch of stampeding cattle. My job isn’t to critique those folks who… Read More Running of the Bulls