Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” – Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) After the last post being a wrap-up of the year, it feels like I shouldn’t… Read More The December Photos
“Life isn’t tied up with a bow, but it is still a gift.” – Proverb So, once again time for that end of year wrap-up. The next few days look to be outrageously busy, so I thought I’d whip it into shape before we hit auld lang syne and all that. As usual, a bit… Read More 2011 Tied Up in a Bow
Sometimes when a recipe, or an object, is named after someone famous, the story is relatively well known. Other times, it’s not. This is going to be a bit of an exploration of the origins of one of Argentina’s iconic dishes, the revuelto gramajo, or “Gramajo’s scramble”. Not only does the legend of the dish… Read More Scrambled Story
I’ve been debating writing this post, which perhaps is a sign to myself that I shouldn’t, but, I agreed to. And the truth is, while the experience that I had was not to “my tastes”, there are plenty of people out there for whom it would be exactly what they want, and what they expected.… Read More Wanna Happy Ending?
One of the common refrains from visitors is to marvel at how cheap things in Buenos Aires “are”. Though, that’s been changing, and more and more I hear from people who are surprised it’s not really so cheap anymore. Taxi fares just went up by 26% this week to a base of ar$7.80 with .78… Read More Transit in BA – Cheap No More
I realized recently that at the end of each month there are always a bunch of photos sitting in a folder that I haven’t gotten around to writing about because they’re just things that caught my eye or, if they’re restaurant/food related they just don’t quite merit a review. So, perhaps this will be a… Read More November Roundup
The title is from Wally Glickman’s Ode to a Bagel, do check it out. Expat culture is not homogenous, it is made up of people from a large number of countries and cultures. Each expat comes with not only their personal quirks, baggage, hopes and expectations, but often their cultural ones. While those of us… Read More Blessed Bread with Chewy Soul
“Thank you, Lord, for thinking about me, I’m alive and doing fine.” – Signs, Written by Les Emmerson, Performed by Five Man Electrical Band From window signs… Don’t ask me, I really don’t know. The greatest battle since Mothra vs Godzilla. …to quite artistic graffiti… Fish gotta swim. The band gotta jam. Free spirits gotta… Read More Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign