A family visiting break on Sunday, my aunt and uncle in Connecticutt – both a nice visit and some downtime – and definitely a nice break on stuffing myself with multiple plates of the latest trend or largest portion of food coming out of a kitchen. Breakfast was just coffee before heading to the Amtrak,… Read More From the Charles to the Hudson
Having called it an early night I was up bright and early, somewhere around 6 a.m., and decided to break fast in the lobby bar/cafe. More food? Yeah, I was hungry! Checking out a traditional Boston corned beef hash and eggs sounded like a great way to start the day. This was good, really quite… Read More Crossing the Charles
Coming to you from the Amtrak between Boston and New Haven, with really lousy, spotty wi-fi, but, hopefully this will all work, even if it takes three times as long to make edits and posts. I’d been to Boston twice in my life before this weekend. Once was back in the mid-80s, an invite from… Read More Bahstin
Okay, I woke up still stuffed from the previous day’s series of small plates that seemed to stretch out all day long. I vowed that this would be a lighter day, and also one with some exercise in it – a few miles of walking about the city, and a two hour dojo workout handled… Read More A Little Lighter….
Perhaps it’s a bit of the seven year itch, but even after 24 hours back here in New York, I’m finding this to be the first time I’m seriously thinking about the stuff here that I really miss, beyond the usual off-hand quip about bagels and good sushi. Just walking through the Union Square Greenmarket… Read More Things that Come to Mind
Bagel, Oysters, Pizza. Kind of the new acronym for what to eat when hitting the ground in New York, at least within the first few hours. Uneventful flight, all the warnings about how bad United is to fly simply were’t true – the attendants were great, the seats were as comfortable or un, as any… Read More B.O.P.
We’ve had just three Cinco de Mayo dinner weekends since we opened Casa SaltShaker. The first was actually our official opening night, in 2006 (we had some trial run dinners beforehand with invited guests, this was the first open to the public one). Now that first one, we actually did nothing related to the Mexican… Read More Cinco de Oh Mayo!
This started off with a little project I just worked on for What’s Up Buenos Aires? that will be coming out in the next week. As part of it, I started thinking about seafood on the grill – until recently one of my favorite spots to take visiting friends was Jangada, which just kept getting… Read More Slip a Shrimp on the Barbie