Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
One could argue that these [today’s] ‘plagues’ are fundamentally different than the ones in the Passover story because they can be seen as humankind’s own creations and not sent by God. – Dan Weiss, Only 10 plagues? Early Egyptians had it easy Buenos Aires – Most Jewish kids I knew when I was growing up… Read More Why Is This Night…?
“In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.” – Thomas Carlyle, Philosopher Buenos Aires – Just a few random notes… Disco, one of the local supermarkets, is three deep with people at the meat, i.e., beef, counter. With the 30-day suspension of the strike, people are battling over the packages of red… Read More Noted…
“There is no symbolism for the “disappeared”. They were taken away without a trace. That was part of the terror tactic: the permanent anguish it caused the family. It is described like living with a ghost; they are not dead, but they are not alive either. The idea that some day they might return (although… Read More A Week of Protest
“We are all in deep thought, hurting, wanting to say something that will help us understand. Whatever we have to say probably pales in comparison to what those who have gone on would say to us.” – Eugene Habecker, President, Taylor University Buenos Aires – It’s not all food, wine, and architecture you know. There’s… Read More Deep Thought?
“There’s a thousand little things that go into making a great-tasting sausage, … It’s just attention to detail, every darn one.” – Ralph Stayer, President, Johnsonville Foods Buenos Aires – One of the cool things about being in a sort of multi-tasking lifestyle these days, i.e., I don’t have one job that I go to… Read More Filled and Tied
In November 1889, the young army officer Felicíssimo do Espírito Santo Cardoso handed a dismissal letter to Dom Pedro II and conducted the Emperor to the ship that would carry him into exile. That act was more symbolic of the change from monarchy to republic than Field Marshal Deodoro’s cry of “Long live the Republic!”… Read More Paint by Numbers 5
This is a book that confronts one of the least known but important facts about the world’s cities: that they are home to more than a billion squatters. Within a generation, that number is projected to grow to two billion – and more than half the people living in cities will be squatters. Yet most… Read More Abandon all hope?
For those who haven’t noticed, I turned off the feature that required you register and log-in in order to comment. I don’t know why, but apparently the registration software had simply stopped sending out passwords when people register, and even when I manually entered new people who wanted to register, they couldn’t log-in. So commentary… Read More Commentary