Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
“When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.” Confucius, philosopher Maipú, Argentina – Returning to the hotel at a reasonable hour around 4:30 or 5:00 p.m. from our steady tasting and lunching, John and I decided to venture out for a stroll around Plaza Independencía, the central… Read More A Foursome Before Dinner
“When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be.” – Henry Van Dyke, short story writer, poet San Rafael, Argentina – The next series of posts will be mostly alot of wine tasting and winery stuff… Read More Of Wings and Wines
“I am–fanatically, unapologetically–a placeist. This makes me a virtual thought-criminal in an age of global homogeneity. ‘Placeism’ might be defined in the criminal code as the unreasoned love of a particular place, be it a neighborhood, village, city, or even state. Placeists insist that residents of real places have histories, customs, accents, and concerns that… Read More Way Up North
“We who are of Nature’s making, And have souls that should aspire, Shall we not, from sloth awaking, Lift the voice and sound the lyre! And be seen, of brutes, or none! Shall her flowers bloom and die Undelighting human eye!” – from Lyric Leaves by Cornelius Webbe, 1832 Highwood, Illinois – Little to say,… Read More Nonet de Flores
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.” – Plutarch, Greek Historian, Biographer, Essayist Buenos Aires – Continuing on my series of Supreme Directors’ walks – we pick up, chronologically, though not geographically,… Read More The Supremes – Tracks 3 & 7
“The same me that stands here now When I think that all this stuff Can make a life that’s pretty hard to take it in, that was me That was me, ya, that was me!” – Paul McCartney, final lyrics to That Was Me Buenos Aires – I wasn’t a member of the debate club… Read More What Debate?
Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun. Charging to 300… Clear! Buenos Aires – ’nuff said.
“Some may try and tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in… Read More Ushering in the Next 50