For months when I first came to South America I kept thinking that the menus in Peruvian restaurants had a misspelling. Not in their English translations, which, let’s face it, are ubiquitous, but in the Spanish. Everyone was offering up lomo saltado, “leapt (or leaped) beef”. I was sure they were using the wrong verb… Read More Leaping Beef
“The Carrot has a somewhat obscure history, surrounded by doubt and enigma and it is difficult to pin down when domestication took place. The wide distribution of Wild Carrot, the absence of carrot root remains in archaeological excavations and lack of documentary evidence do not enable us to determine precisely where and when carrot domestication… Read More Of Carrots & Radicchio
Picking up on a past project of searching out seafood mixed grills and here, it just seems time to get back to that – especially since I said a year ago I’d get back to it in a month. Plus I’m kind of taking a mini-break from the 92 pizza project, or at least slowing… Read More More Shrimps on the Barbie
“What matters most are the simple pleasures so abundant that we can all enjoy them…Happiness doesn’t lie in the objects we gather around us. To find it, all we need to do is open our eyes.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince If a new Peruvian restaurant opens in Buenos Aires and Henry and… Read More The Little Prince
A month ago on this crazy trek I left off in Caballito, just past Parque Centenario, with deep debates on the merits of tasting the pizza from a second branch of a chain that I’d already tried. The final decision mine, I opted to just mention it, number it, and move on, sans nibbling. The… Read More 92 Bus, Stops 20 – 23
I posted last week about a three-class birthday present for one young lady from another, and this week we had the other two sessions. The birthday girl asked for a bit of Peruvian and Brazilian food, so I put together a couple of classes that pulled out some favorites and even added in a new… Read More More class
“Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with. Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.” – Robert Farrar Capon, Episcopal Priest and… Read More Tweaking on the Recetas
What a cool birthday present! Not for me, but I’d love one similar one day. A young woman just off a two year stint in Paraguay with the Peace Corps decided to buy a trio of private cooking classes with us for a friend she made while in Paraguay who’s now living here in BA,… Read More Showing a little class