Restaurant reviews – the opinions expressed are solely my own. Often, though it will appear that they’re based on a single visit, they’re based on more than one. And I’m willing to hear from folks who disagree – I do know that restaurants, including my own, have their off days.
“How ’bout a nice greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?” – from Weird Science (1985) Back in the sandwich world, the classics here, of course, being the milanesa, essentially a weiner schnitzel on bread, and the choripan, a grilled chorizo, butterflied, and also served on bread. Typical condiments – chimichurri or salsa criolla.… Read More Just Not Bonding with my Bondi-pan
“A world devoid of tomato soup, tomato sauce, tomato ketchup and tomato paste is hard to visualize. Could the tin and processed food industries have got where they have without the benefit of the tomato compounds which colour, flavour, thicken and conceal so many deficiencies? How did the Italians eat spaghetti before the advent of… Read More We я the Oven
Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called “wheat germ, organic honey and tiger’s milk.” Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties. Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or… hot fudge? Dr.… Read More Tiger’s Milk – Glass I
“Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.” – Colman McCarthy, journalist, activist I was vegetarian once upon a time. It wasn’t for a long period. I was dating someone who was, wasn’t working in a restaurant at that moment, and it seemed to be a good move at the time.… Read More Passing Vegetarian
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” – Henry David Thoreau Really, disappointing is not the correct word, as in order to be disappointed, you must have had a level of expectation which exceeded the outcome. And, in the case of these two mini-reviews, I had no… Read More Disappointing Duo
“Ambivalence dominates the Argentines’ self-identity. Depending on the political climate of the times and the dominant ideological orientations, residents of this country oscillate between an identity stressing commonalities with other Latin-American nations; a shared history of four centuries of Spanish rule; and an identity highlighting the uniqueness of this nation, an alleged Europeanized cosmopolitan national… Read More An Empanada to Beat
“Huarique: Lugar poco conocido donde se puede comer y beber a bajo precio.” “Hole-in-the wall” For many years, until the cuisine, and in particular, the banh mi sandwiches, became all the rage, those in the know in NYC knew that the best of those sandwiches, not to mention amazingly good, home-cooked Vietnamese dishes of other… Read More Perú ᴙ Us
“Another factor that renders Peru exceptional: The unusual is commonplace.” – Fabiola Santiago, Miami Herald It’s really not news around here, or probably in any hot culinary landscape, Peruvian cuisine, and in particular modern, fusion, or nueva andina, are all the rage. For some time now I’ve been hearing about a hotspot of the genre… Read More Hot Fusion