Posts that have become popular for their content, whether just advice, or controversy, and have generated the most e-mail or comments, and therefore keep showing up in my consciousness.
“We relish the opportunity of finding something new and different to eat wherever we go, whether it is part of an extended travel experience to a far destination or simply to a treasured friend’s table down the street. On The Road is our way of sharing the pleasure and adventure of food discovery through the… Read More Kindred Spirits
“What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen. – Alice B. Toklas Buenos Aires – I’ve been promising on and off since our trip to Perú that I’d share a step-by-step how-to for ají de… Read More Ají de Gallina
Trujillo, Peru – At least for now, this is my roundup post on Trujillo and its food, and meeting Henry’s family. I’m going to let the photos speak for themselves for the most part… these are some of the highlights of the visit. We spent an hour at a horse show one afternoon at a… Read More One Last Look at Comida Trujillana
“The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.” – Edwin Booth, Actor Buenos Aires – There are myriad internet sites out there that talk about the world of mistranslation. In the food… Read More Lost in Traducción
“Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that human beings are connected through relationships with at most six other people. Several studies, such as Milgram’s small world experiment have been conducted to empirically measure this connectedness. While the exact number of links between people differs depending on the population measured, it is generally found… Read More Six Degrees of Separation
“When I was a kid, life was good. I had some GrrAnimals clothes, and they were all prematched. On the tags they had animals, and the lion shirt went with the lion pants. The giraffe shirt went with the giraffe pants. And then they played into each other, like the lion stuff would also go… Read More Crawling Around
“The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.” – Karl Kraus, Austrian Journalist Buenos Aires – It seems that among the many things that fascinate people headed here for vacation or business or an expat life, is the interaction between the press back wherever they’re from, and how it… Read More Power of the Press
Stan Laurel: “We drank your liqueur.” Mrs Laurel: “That wasn’t liqueur, it was cold tea.” – From Blotto, 1930 Buenos Aires – About a month and a half ago here at Casa S we put on a dinner featuring spirits and liqueurs from what is arguably Argentina’s finest distillery, Tapaus. The food was received to… Read More Another Spirited Evening