A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
We continue on the search for the best sandwiches in this city. After I mentioned in my side-page for favorite sandwiches that I had yet to find a lamb sandwich of any sort here (other than shawarma or burger), I swiftly received two different recommendations – both in Villa Crespo and only a few short… Read More The Great Sandwich Hunt 3
Okay, I’m spending too much time in front of the computer – I think I’ll have to limit my new little “Game On” posts to one or two a week instead of a daily entry. To be saved for “slow news” days. On to the food stuffs of the day, a look at the first… Read More Lunch in the Serene Republic
Falling as it did between the U.S. and Argentine independence days, this weekend was a quiet one for us – whether or not there was any cause and effect, no idea, but it stood out between past weekends and upcoming ones as one with very few reservation requests. Didn’t stop us from having a whole… Read More Independence Weekend
Continuing our weekly series of regional Italian lunches, we ventured this week to the northeast and the land called Friuli-Venezia Giulia. I have a bit of a special connection to the area, having spent a quintet of years working for Lidia Bastianich at her flagship restaurant Felidia, and there, having had the chance to learn… Read More Istrian Eating
The monthly round-up of leftover pictures – not many this month. Had lunch with a friend at a little Recoleta neighborhood spot, Brut Nature, that I’ve passed numerous times but never gone into as, well, every time I looked inside there were never more than a half dozen or so people in there, and as a… Read More Four Weeks in June
Private party on Thursday for a family from Brazil – a parade of some recent dishes… Cherry tomato tarte tatin with a little mixed herb salad dressed in a vinaigrette made with our new tomato-vinegar. A caldillo, a chowder like stew from Chile, made with salmón blanco, sans shrimp due to a family allergy. From… Read More The Weekend Review
It’s always a great thing to see when the organizers of a repeating event don’t repeat their mistakes. Not that there were many made that could have been foreseen in last year’s BA Chili Cookoff – most of what didn’t work had to do with an unexpectedly large crowd turnout that just overwhelmed what had… Read More Cookoff – Take 2
In your weekly Italian classroom update I bring you the last of our five-session northwest lunches, Liguria. The crescent shaped state, most of it perched high atop a windswept cliff, is probably best known for Cinque Terre, the “five lands”, a group of five villages that dot the arc, and la Superba – Genoa –… Read More Five Towns Cooking