A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
Buenos Aires – First off, thanks to all who sent Henry good wishes, he’s out of the hospital, doing well, and staying with me until he’s back on his feet. The aforementioned hospital (a couple days ago) pumped two last units of whole blood into him, removed his IV and told him to go home… Read More No New York Deli
Buenos Aires – One of the items I was able to pick up yesterday in the Asian grocery was a bag of matsutake mushrooms. If you’re not familiar with these, also known as pine mushrooms, they are amongst the priciest of all fungi. It’s not unusual in the U.S. to see imported Japanese matsutake going… Read More Matsutakes
Buenos Aires – Not the pants, but the Chinese. Specifically, the Taiwanese, who settled the eastern part of the Belgrano neighborhood long ago. The area is known as Barrio Chino, or Chinatown. It is predominately a residential area, just north and east of the Belgrano “C” train station, and easy to get to by train,… Read More Chinos
Buenos Aires – Note: a couple of people e-mailed me to ask for larger pictures… so I’ve upped their size a little bit. It was a stunningly glorious day – high 60s, not a cloud in the sky, a light breeze, just one of those perfect times to be out wandering around. I made it… Read More Liver & Llamas
Buenos Aires – Back in the big city and I had this hankering for some spicy food. I’d heard there was a reasonably authentic Vietnamese restaurant in Palermo and set out on the apparent 15 minute walk from home. It turned out closer to half an hour and truly unfortunately has been replaced by a… Read More Dragon Fire
Buenos Aires – On waking up I had that delightful leaden feel of having eaten my body weight in cholesterol. Noticing too that I have been adding a few centimeters to my center section, I decided it was time to get back to working out. So I wandered down the block to the gym that’s… Read More Exercise and all that
Buenos Aires – That seems to be the question on several of my friends’ lips, as I don’t seem to be eating steak four meals a day. There is a myth that beef for breakfast, lunch, second lunch, and dinner is how the porteños eat. And, as a tourist, I have no doubt that has… Read More Where’s the Beef?
Buenos Aires – The aforementioned drizzle kept myself and my guests in for most of the weekend. For the most part it was two days of television, reading, and me playing in the kitchen. We did venture out briefly on Saturday. Here’s a picture of Henry whom I’ve mentioned in several posts. The young lady… Read More Weekend Stews