Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
“The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.” – Boutros Boutros-Ghali It’s always tough to wrap-up a year, but it’s also kind of fun to just look… Read More The 2010 Wrap-Up
“Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.” – Gregory David Roberts, author It has been awhile since I’ve been out “clubbing” – and I don’t mean the disco (are they still called discos?) – I just mean going out to a club. Of any sort. It’s not really my thing,… Read More Dances with Friends
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca, 1st century Roman philosopher Let me start by saying that I had a huge amount of fun in the kitchen this weekend, and it started me thinking…. Things are about to change a it here at Casa SaltShaker. Oh, no worries, we’re not going… Read More The Start of a New Chapter
“The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands I’m in the midst of a couple of very time consuming projects, along with this… Read More Naturally Speaking…
Very cool antique car show going on this afternoon along Av. Quintana just off of Plaza Francia….
Larry Daley: Sorry. Last time I checked, I thought we lived in a free country, so… Brandon: No, we don’t. Larry Daley: No? Brandon: It’s the United States of “Don’t Touch That Thing Right in Front of You.” – from Night at the Museum 2 [Warning: Creepy photos below] Each year Buenos Aires hosts an… Read More A Night in the Museums
I tend to avoid the political arena on this blog, but here we are on midterm election day, and it’s been a contentious process to get here, to say the least. Who knows what tomorrow will bring – likely, more of the same – the same that has been, more or less in place regardless… Read More Back to the Future or Forth to the Past?
Picking up on our wander along Av. Rivadavia from where we left off with a cup of coffee and a strawberry tart in front of us at Las Violetas, we cross relatively quickly through barrio Almagro and on into Caballito. The neighborhood begins to feel more residential, there’s still plenty of commercial establishments, but there… Read More Presidential Backbone – 5th Vertebra