Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
A friend of mine, Kevin Hopp, who used to live here in BA and now lives in the Florida Keys, proposed that we come up with a sort of online cooking competition. But not really a competition, because we’re more than a few kilometers apart, and no one can really do much more than judge… Read More Top-Master-Chopped-Iron-Chef #1
Early last month I got to thinking that it would be really nice if I knew more about how to use my camera on something other than its automatic settings. I mean, I’ve had it for two years now. Otherwise, I may as well have stuck with my old point and shoot camera that I… Read More April. With Camera.
Fería de las Comunidades Latinoamericanas en La Plata, Argentina
I was having a discussion the other night with some of the guests at dinner and one of the questions that came up from someone who’s been reading the blog was, more or less, “do you really eat at all those places?” It was specifically in reference to the various mini-reviews that made up the… Read More What Does it Take?
Just a quick look at this past weekend’s Abunda (“abounds”) food festival up in Vicente Lopez, just north of the city limits. Set along the Paseo de la Costa it was a lovely place for an outdoor food fest and attracted a whole lotta folk. I stayed for awhile, wandered around, checked out some of… Read More Gastronomy Festival Abounds
After yesterday’s post I needed a break all over again, but luckily, I had one planned for after the dinners. Being a holiday weekend and having had all the extra private parties, we’d decided to take a four-day break and have a Saturday through Tuesday off. Henry wanted to have a party for a group… Read More Day Trip to the Tigre
A series of private parties and a week of dinners, and most of it went quite well. But there was that last night of last week. One of the questions I often get asked is something like, “what do you do when a night doesn’t go well?” or “do you ever have nights where the… Read More Spiraling around the Dinner Table
Enough of a break from pizza eating, right? After all, it’s pizza! We pick up in Velez Sarsfield and continue on into Parque Avellaneda, and maybe even just edging into Mataderos, which will be our last barrio headed this direction on the 92 bus pizza trek. We begin just a block further on from our… Read More 92 Bus, Stops 41-43