Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
When last I signed off on my stroll along Av. Rivadavia we were at Plaza Miserere, the Once train and bus terminal. Picking up just past the plaza, we find a section of the avenue that was, at one time, a long stretch of beautiful homes, most of which have now become faded shells of… Read More Presidential Backbone – 4th Vertebra
“To infinity and beyond!” – Buzz Lightyear One of Buenos Aires’ first puertas cerradas restaurants, The Little Prince, and a seal in the bathtub. What do these things have in common? Momentos en el Infinito, high atop (well, sixth floor) the Palacio Galería Güemes is/was that commonality. A rooftop restaurant that was originally opened by… Read More When You Need to Step Away From It All
Just a photo and eating afternoon spent in Colonia del Sacramento, across the river… What a gorgeous day to walk along the shore! And apparently I wasn’t the only one thinking that…. I really love the look of some of the old homes that have stood here for more than a century. And the side… Read More Time Out in Colonia
On to the other “private” cemetery out at Chacarita, following on my little writeup of the German Cemetery, today, the British Cemetery. Originally, in 1822, this graveyard was located in the Retiro area, on the side of the Socorro church along Juncal, at Suipacha. Eleven years later it was moved to Victoria street, in Once,… Read More The British Are C… Oh Wait, No, They’ve Gone….
“I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.” – Gertrude Stein I have written in the past about the Cementerio Chacarita, the massive cemetery in the heart of Buenos Aires that dwarfs the more famed… Read More Surrounded by Germans
“No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. – Henry Ward Beecher That was the title, in Spanish anyway, of a panel presentation I just returned from. The presentation was held at the University of Palermo’s School of Design and Communication and… Read More Coffee, The Business of Aroma
I’ve gotten a few requests to post the links for the last radio show for people who missed it. The show, Rise & Shine, hosted by Al Adams, retired U.S. ambassador, is a local Saturday morning talk/interview format, with music, on Urbana FM 89.5. You can always go to their website [not anymore, station out… Read More Radio – On Local Food Trends
[Setting the scene: Me, answering the phone. Her, as a guess, 60s, and, as another guess, a trifle tipsy.] Me: Hello Her: Yes, I would like to talk to whomever is responsible. Me: I’m guessing that would be me, but responsible for what? Her: For creating a restaurant that’s completely uninteresting to eat at. Me:… Read More Conversations with Porteñas #2