Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
Buenos Aires – First off, a Happy New Year, or Happy Rosh Hashanah, or Shana Tova, in particular to any of my Jewish readers, friends, neighbors… though really, to everyone – today begins the year 5768, and we’ll just have to see what it has in store for SaltShaker, my life, and the lives of… Read More Happy New Stuff!
“I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t understand.” – Sir Edward Appleton, English Physicist Buenos Aires – I enjoy opera. There. It’s out in the open. I’ve said it. I enjoy opera. I’m not what you would call a fan or fanatic or… Read More Music to Soothe the Savage…
…there was always the risk of dating someone who’d owned a lunch box with my picture on it.” – Shaun Cassidy, Pop Singer/Actor Buenos Aires – There’s nothing like a really good use of some leftovers. In this case, the mamaliga from this weekend’s dinners. More or less the Eastern European version of polenta, I… Read More From the Lunch Pail
I had fallen victim to what is called, by its detractors, food porn … the shows made now are full of exacting, intimate, amplified and exaggerated beauties. It’s not erotic, I can confirm – that’s not why it’s called food porn. It’s just unreal. You will never meet a Playmate of the Month; you will… Read More Progreso Porn
Just a quick note. Yes, I know that there are numerous spots on the blog that have strange… “wonky” looking strings of characters. Apparently, in the latest upgrade of WordPress, there was some coding that didn’t recognize accented characters unless they were done using “spelled out” HTML coding – i.e., if you want an n… Read More Accent on Accents
“Architectural detail fell away initially as part of changing style preferences. Once Art Deco morphed into Art Moderne (progressively more streamlined and simpler detail), we moved into the hegemony of Modernism (Corbu, Mies, et al). Structure was king and detail was derided as old fashioned. So, as construction required less and less artisan skills for… Read More Console Yourself
But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them.” – Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Indian Spiritual Leader Buenos Aires – Yesterday was all about cheese. In fact, it started a week or so ago, on a re-visit to Chère Sophie with our friend Rick, and after lunch… Read More Cheese Heaven
Buenos Aires – Just a quick note, a public posting, to thank all those of you who sent e-mails enquiring after Henry’s family in Peru with the now two earthquakes in the last two days. They’re fine, they live up on the far northwest coast, about an eight hour drive north of Lima, and the… Read More Natural Disasters