Really, just another trio of quickie, mini-reviews, places we/I have popped out to for lunch over the last few weeks. Around the corner from home, a revamped pizzeria – formerly Domenico, now Gioia, at Peña 2121. We’d never tried it as the former, and one day in the mood for a veggie pizza, we thought… Read More Pizza, Pasteles and Totopostes
Great book by an author who I already liked – Anya Von Bremzen’s Please to the Table is a fantastic resource for the various cuisines of the former Soviet Union. I was surprised that there was little cooking in this new volume, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking. While there’s a fair amount about food,… Read More Growing Up Russian
“There were two hard-boiled egg sandwiches, and two cheese sandwiches, and two with some kind of paste in them. If he hadn’t been so hungry he wouldn’t have thought much of the paste, for that is a sort of food nobody eats in Narnia.” – C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle, Book 7 of the Chronicles… Read More Chronicles of Shawarma – Book VII
I decided to play around a little more with some of the dishes from our first Iquitos inspired dinner, and searching for a quotation to open the post came across this video of a new documentary that’s in production, Our Man in Iquitos. from Brooklyn Vitagraph It also reminds me that I wanted to put… Read More Iquitos – Another Round of Inspiration
I’ve resisted going to check this place out. It’s a new-ish branch of a restaurant I didn’t like the first branch of. And, I probably wouldn’t have bothered except that a guidebook writing friend is in town and it was on her list. And so we met up the other evening at Sipán Cevichería Peruana,… Read More Golden Wonder, Take Two
I get a lot of requests from PR folk to review or promote products, books, etc., and generally, unless they’re directly related to the blog, I ignore them. Plus, I’ve found that an amazing number of them want me to do so without ever having tried the product or read the book. Now and again… Read More Red Border Tales
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the… Read More Evolution of the Trout
If you’re not aware and you’re here in Buenos Aires, the last couple of days, plus today and tomorrow are the Raíz Festival Gastronómico. This is a new festival that was announced as an exploration of the roots of Argentine cuisine. It does go a bit beyond that – although the mercado of food and… Read More Mixed Roots in Argentina