Oh, there were so many ways I could have gone after yesterday’s Lorem Ipsum piece. Could I have gone to Etaoin Shrdlu, another remnant phrase of typesetting days, specifically the Linotype machine? Certainly. But that’s just a foray into an older version of Qwerty, which we all know from typing on a modern keyboard. Of… Read More Game On – Fantastic Worlds
Yesterday I started off with a little “encyclopedia game” with a randomly selected Wikipedia page on Dog Latin. While there were many directions I could have gone from that page or the various other pages on the topic I pulled up, the most interesting one, and the one that caught my eye as it fulfilled… Read More Game On – Seeking Pain and Pleasure
Falling as it did between the U.S. and Argentine independence days, this weekend was a quiet one for us – whether or not there was any cause and effect, no idea, but it stood out between past weekends and upcoming ones as one with very few reservation requests. Didn’t stop us from having a whole… Read More Independence Weekend
Yesterday, doing my weekly run through of new videos posted on Ted.com I came across this fun little reinterpretation of the “encyclopedia game” (which, yes, some of us used to play when I was a kid – it’s the kind of thing that nerds do): …and, it got me thinking that it might be fun… Read More Game On
Picking up on the search for great sandwiches here in BA that I started off on just a couple of weeks ago, another five sandwiches have been sought out, ordered, inspected, ingested, digested, and we’ll stop the train of thought right there. I’m going to start off with a trio of lomitos, the classic steak… Read More The Great Sandwich Hunt 2
Continuing our weekly series of regional Italian lunches, we ventured this week to the northeast and the land called Friuli-Venezia Giulia. I have a bit of a special connection to the area, having spent a quintet of years working for Lidia Bastianich at her flagship restaurant Felidia, and there, having had the chance to learn… Read More Istrian Eating
The monthly round-up of leftover pictures – not many this month. Had lunch with a friend at a little Recoleta neighborhood spot, Brut Nature, that I’ve passed numerous times but never gone into as, well, every time I looked inside there were never more than a half dozen or so people in there, and as a… Read More Four Weeks in June
Private party on Thursday for a family from Brazil – a parade of some recent dishes… Cherry tomato tarte tatin with a little mixed herb salad dressed in a vinaigrette made with our new tomato-vinegar. A caldillo, a chowder like stew from Chile, made with salmón blanco, sans shrimp due to a family allergy. From… Read More The Weekend Review