Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy A friend of a friend, Hernán Dompé has a sculpture exhibit currently showing at the Centro Cultural Recoleta. A series of highly stylized “warriors”, each intricately detailed and fascinating. Worth a stop in to see. Besides, the cultural center is a fun place… Read More Standing Tall
Continuing along Av. Rivadavia, the “spine of Buenos Aires” from where we left off in Congreso, to the next good stopping point, at Plaza Miserere…. Most of this section is very commercial, with little of interest in terms of well-known buildings or sites of note. But there is some quite pretty architecture, particularly if you… Read More Presidential Backbone – 3rd Vertebra
Just a reflection on the day – five years ago today I arrived in Buenos Aires with the plan to stay for 8-10 weeks. It was grey and rainy. Henry and I met up for the first time in close to six months. I tried my first provoletta. Today is likewise grey but so far… Read More The Fifth
This is a new little feature I’ve been thinking about for some time. One of the things that has amused me, often, over the last five years has been the world of conversations that I overhear. In particular, at least one of the parties is generally a porteña, a woman from Buenos Aires, and almost… Read More Conversations with Porteñas #1
…what the McDonald’s sign in any Chinatown out there says… it’s a, more or less, transliteration: mài tāng láo. It doesn’t end up meaning anything in particular – the characters reading “wheat” “suitable” “labor”. Just noting. …if you were arriving in the right place, this was my welcome back to BsAs as we taxied in… Read More If you ever wondered…
Kate: I need bread. Eugene: What? Kate: I don’t have enough bread. Run over to Greenblatt’s and get me a fresh rye bread. Eugene: Again? I just came back from Grennblatt’s. Kate: So you’ll go again. Eugene: I’m always going to the store. When I grow up, that’s all I’ll be trained to do, go… Read More 20 Views of Little Russia by the Sea
“Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller For those of you following along for the vicarious thrill of checking out NYC’s restaurant scene, today’s post is likely to be a bit of a disappointment. For those of you, for whom knowing… Read More Leisure Day
“Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.” – Oscar Wilde …Fifth anniversary that is… of this blog. It’s odd, it seems as if I’ve been writing it far longer than that, and as this date approached… Read More I’m Taking the Fifth…