Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
“…most ordinary Argentines don’t need any help from the economists to figure out that inflation is raging again.” – Brian Milner, Argentine inflation forecasters tread carefully, The Globe and Mail Everyone here knows inflation is high. Anecdotal estimates range from 20% to 40% annually, depending on who you’re talking to and what they’re talking about.… Read More Inflated Empanadas
“With my griddle of justice, I BASH the enemy in the head, or I burn them like so! I also have some truth syrup, which is low in fat.” – The Waffler, Mystery Men (1999) Adrian E. Miller is an ex-politico and lawyer turned food historian who has a forthcoming book on the history of… Read More Food News a la Plancha
“Before 18th May 1810, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay were all part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, a Spanish colony. At that time Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, was king of Spain. However, he was opposed by the Spanish Supreme Central Junta, a committee of local governments, which resisted him and… Read More From SIDE to Sabot
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“He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.” – Sinclair Lewis, author You might not even think of Buenos Aires’ Catedral Metropolitana… Read More Cathedral, Version 6.1
“There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through.” – Dan Rice, artist Continuing on down the Museum Mile, or, in reality, a bit of back and forth, since I’m going back to the start and… Read More Rolling on Down the Museum Mile
“Baby you can drive my car. Yes I’m gonna be a star.” – The Beatles, Drive My Car Picking up on my tour of the various museums of the Milla de los Museos, I dropped in on the Museo del Automovíl Club Argentino, Av. Libertador 1850, Palermo, in the ACA’s headquarters building (different, by the… Read More Wheels
“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.” – Andre Malraux, French historian There’s an apartment in… Read More Days in Photos