A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
Buenos Aires – The Palio opened up, I believe, on Sunday night, at least according to all my sources. Not that they run the Palio here in Argentina, though there are certainly enough horses and races around, but to the best of my knowledge it continues in its traditional location of Siena, Italy. On the… Read More Opening Night of the Palio
Love ’em or hate ’em, Brussels Sprouts abound. Or is that Brussel Sprouts? It’s a source of quite a bit of contention whether this “countable noun” should have an “s” on the end of its first name. But then, it’s named after the city of Brussels, in Belgium, so one would think that’s a non-issue.… Read More Do You Hate These?
Buenos Aires – The most surprising thing about our Casa SaltShaker venture isn’t that people have been coming and enjoying, much as the speed of word of mouth did catch me off guard. Instead, it’s been the idea of having a private dinner somewhere. There seem to be a large number of people, either visitors… Read More A Quiet Space for Dinner
Buenos Aires – With most of the weekend pouring and/or drizzling rain, we spent a fair amount of it indoors. It’s clearly moving into the type of weather for nice hearty pastas, stews, and soups, so I’ll be experimenting more with those. With half a head of cauliflower left from the other day’s Kuku, I… Read More A Couple of Cold Weather Dishes
Buenos Aires – It’s been the talk of the food blogosphere and news writers for the last week. Whole Foods Market announced on June 16th that they were going to stop selling live lobsters (and crabs). Various emphases are mine… “Although we discovered significant improvements are possible from capture up to in-store tank conditions, we… Read More The Great Lobster Controversy
Buenos Aires – I love cauliflower, and I love finding new and interesting ways to serve it. I don’t know what it is about the vegetable, but it’s one of my favorites. Has been ever since Birdseye Cauliflower in Cheddar Cheese Sauce boil-in-the-bags. My tastes have changed over time, and I know tend to prefer… Read More Cuckoo for Cauliflower
New York – It’s the time here for the early versions of many vegetables. Those of you who were paying attention, or even reading my blog, last week, know I was a bit enamored of a large bunch of green garlic that I picked up at the Greenmarket. By this week, the green garlic was… Read More How Green was My Garlic?
New York – One of the things I do miss about NYC is the Greenmarket. While Buenos Aires has numerous farm stands and the various Mercados I’ve reviewed, it has nothing like the open air gathering that is the weekend greenmarket at Union Square, in particular. A lot of the fun of the greenmarket is… Read More Pollito, or, Chicken Little