A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
Those of you who live here are probably familiar with the two online local food giants – Buenos Aires Delivery, a relative newcomer that has become the expat lifeline for finding and ordering takeout food; and Guia Oleo, the local Zagat’s equivalent for ratings and commentary of restaurants throughout the city (if your Spanish is… Read More A Taste of Taste
The Inti Raymi festival was once more upon us and Henry prevailed on me to bring some Peruvian flavors to the table this weekend. Or at least some inspirations…. Starting with ceviche was pretty much a given – sole ceviche with a guacamole mousse (very non-Peruvian the latter, but I like it). Vegetarian option this… Read More Our Annual Festival of the Sun
It seems sandwiches are all the rage these days. Recent blog posts on a couple of different local sites have declared top 5s or 10s of their personal searches and favorites. Adam Richman just launched his new show Best Sandwich in America which, while interesting and mouthwatering subject material is so poorly put together as… Read More The Great Sandwich Hunt
In the north central part of Italy is the Trentino-Alto Adige, oft-times referred to as the Sudtiröl – the southern Tirol, much of it being located in the southern slopes of the mountains. Here, the cuisine is heavily influenced by its Swiss neighbors to the north, and here, we headed for lunch in today’s class.… Read More The Hills are Alive…
One of my guilty pleasures is watching competition cooking shows. I don’t watch them for the reason that, I think, most people do, which tends to be getting deeply involved in the whole competition process. It’s easy to see on the online forums for these shows, people railing against judges whom they’re quite sure are… Read More Too Many Inspirations
The weekend’s dinners were a bit on the quiet side. One night we just had six folk, and two of them were friends who jumped in to the rescue at the last minute; the second night was fully booked, but a trio backed out due to one of them having food poisoning from lunch, at… Read More Of Sweetbreads and Lamb
Continuing our series of northwestern Italian lunch classes (in which virtually none of you are enrolled, more’s the pity)… Lombardia. Milano. While this would seem to be “the” class to make a risotto, especially a classic Milanese risotto with saffron, kind of the signature of the whole area, this series follows on our basic Italian… Read More Lunch Class – Lombardia
Not my family, but, we’ve been doing a series of dinners for a group of local executives from Banco do Brasíl and one of the couples who has come to them had family in visiting for the weekend for their son’s high school graduation, and booked a private dinner. He’s headed off for my alma… Read More Family from Brasíl