Now that we’ve got a zillion recipes in the Casa S repertoire, and a good number of them that we’re really proud of, I’m focusing the dinners on just one new dish per week, and maybe a tweak to one or two others, but basically four courses which will be selected from past menus. Doesn’t… Read More The Pickle Sauce
Actually, I don’t, but in Brazilian portuguese they might, or they might say mandioca (as they do here in Spanish), or, well, there are just so many names – cassava, yucca, jawaw, chinangwa, kamoteng-kahoy… oh, it just depends on what language you feel like expressing this root in. I’ve been hearing rumors of this new… Read More You say “tapioca”, I say “aipim”
Although technically it didn’t happen until Monday, this past weekend we celebrated the 70th anniversary of the release of Casablanca, a film which, if by some bizarre chance you’ve never seen, it’s really time to. It’s a brilliant classic. And Elsa never said “Play it again, Sam”, it’s one of cinema’s most famous misquoted lines.… Read More Eat it once, Sam, for old times’ sake
Continuing our little walk from where we left off in Plaza Lavalle, where no doubt you’ve had enough statuary to last you for weeks, let’s look at the next ten blocks or so. First off, one of the things that’s noticeable is that there’s a lot of very similar looking, block-y white-grey buildings in what’s… Read More On Down Lavalle…
Just a half a block from home is the site of a restaurant. Now, in the 7+ years we’ve lived on this block this is now the fourth restaurant to occupy the space. The first three were parrillas of one sort or another, the only one I ever reviewed was Evaristo. It was decent and… Read More Taking Refuge at the Tapas Bar
Private party over the weekend, seven folk studying down here as part of a global executive MBA program. A chance for them to get to know each other outside of class, have some food and wine, and just relax. They also very kindly invited us to an event this week at the Swiss Ambassador’s residence… Read More A Touch of the Argentine
Some weeks the lists of what people will and won’t eat just get a bit much and I’m ready to tell them all to take a hike. I don’t, of course, except maybe here and there, politely. This last week’s four dinners combined had 27 different dietary requests, and that’s just from the people who… Read More Working Around It All
If you’re not generally involved in the local foodie community, and yes, I used the “f” word – get over it, it’s a word, it’s in use – it’s quite likely you don’t know that this weekend BA is playing host to a gastronomic fair of, while not gigantic, at least quite large, proportions. Ferí… Read More A Fair Chew