“I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, … [But] it’s very hard to write about real events. It becomes unbearable. The challenge in writing this book was: how do you write about these things bearably without sweetening the pill?” – Salman Rushdie, author Just over a year… Read More North By Northwest on the Indian Subcontinent
“The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.” – Israel Zangwill, author and political activist This weekend continued my project to go back to the early years of the Second Sunday Supper Club, my New… Read More The Early Years V
“The story of barbecue is the story of America: Settlers arrive on great unspoiled continent, discover wondrous riches, set them on fire and eat them. – Vince Staten, author It’s the age-old dichotomy between “Americans” and Argentines – it really isn’t the old saw that back at the beginning of the 19th century the US… Read More Cue the Q
“Baby you can drive my car. Yes I’m gonna be a star.” – The Beatles, Drive My Car Picking up on my tour of the various museums of the Milla de los Museos, I dropped in on the Museo del Automovíl Club Argentino, Av. Libertador 1850, Palermo, in the ACA’s headquarters building (different, by the… Read More Wheels
“The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.” – John Ciardi, poet and translator This winter has been a slow one here at Casa S. A massive drop-off in tourism due to the volcanic ash problems led to a huge number of cancellations for the dinners (during June and… Read More Veganasian
“Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.” – Alfred Whitney… Read More Mona Lisa Smiles
“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.” – Andre Malraux, French historian There’s an apartment in… Read More Days in Photos
“He who goes to bed hungry dreams of pancakes.” – Maltese proverb Henry doesn’t like pancakes, which, if he didn’t have other redeeming qualities would likely end our relationship. It doesn’t mean I can’t make them anyway, it just means that normally then I’d have to make two different weekend breakfasts (during the week my… Read More The Vegan Short Stack