A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
Buenos Aires – “One seventh of your life is spent on Mondays.” “Mondays are not part of the productive work week.” – Dogbert “Mondays suck.” – Garfield Actually, I generally like Mondays. I’m not good at Sundays as they tend to involve being far lazier than I’m happy to be. Mondays are good days to… Read More Mondays
Buenos Aires – Anyone who’s ever worked in a kitchen knows that there are moments when you’re passing by an ingredient in the market and it suddenly leaps up and jumps into your shopping basket. It’s sort of like the iPod, widescreen plasma television, or Soloflex, you suddenly find yourself at home with it, don’t… Read More A Little Touch of Tuscany
Buenos Aires – I realized last night as we decided on a casual dinner while we were out walking around in the neighborhood, that there are places that I don’t stop to think about as restaurants. I don’t mean them any disrespect, it’s just that they’re the kind of places where normally I might only… Read More Standard Issue
New York City – Wow! The first post of 2006! Happy New Year all. So let’s cram a little of everything into this post. I know it’s probably sounded like I haven’t done much of anything but eat for the last few days since arriving here, but in truth, a large amount of my time… Read More Happy New Year!
New York City – After our little “Eve” pary having been such a classic of the genre, I accepted an invite from my friends Warner and Jean out in Brooklyn, for which I still have a valid travel visa, for a possibly slightly more traditional Xmas day dinner. I didn’t do any of the cooking,… Read More And a More Traditional Day of…
New York City – A fair amount of Saturday was spent cooking, some sort of Eve-festival, which, I was sure was going to involve another Virgin. But no, in fact, today’s holiday wasn’t even mentioned, other than in passing. But we’d decided to invite a dozen or so friends over to eat fun food, drink… Read More Traditional Eve party…
Buenos Aires – Headed back to New York for a couple of weeks. Just a few random thoughts on the day of travel… While waiting for my flight in Ezeiza Airport, the major international airport in Buenos Aires, I thought I’d have a little sandwich and a Submarino. This is the local version of hot… Read More Tripping through the clouds
Buenos Aires – The other day in La Plata we’d picked up a Peruvian specialty that someone was hawking on the street – turrone. Different from the Italian torrone which is a honey nougat with nuts, this, traditionally, is a three layered very dense honey spice cake with honey in-between the layers and glazing the… Read More Honey Treat & Subscriptions