“Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like hell.” – Peter Brock, Lacrosse Coach Another little roundup of recent foodstuffs and events. This week’s big event, the 1st Annual Buenos Aires Chili Cookoff – organized by a group of local expats and amazingly thrown together in roughly 3-4 weeks, they put together… Read More The Week in Bites
“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.” – Johann Wolfgang van Goethe, writer and scientist Just a mini-re-review – a place that while I don’t go to regularly, I go to often enough to have tried a good number of items on the menu. It’s Siempre Verde, Arribeños… Read More Forever Green
“Men who have blazed new paths for civilization have always been precedent breakers. It is never the man who believes in his own ideas; who can think and act without a crowd to back him; who is not afraid to stand alone; who is bold, original, resourceful; who has the courage to go where others… Read More The Early Years 3
9: Why do you listen to 1? 5: A group must have a leader. 9: But what if he’s wrong? – from 9 The backlog of restaurant reviews is now caught up, more or less, and I feel like I can keep current with things – packing twenty-some restaurants into a few short weeks put… Read More 1
“Grab your pig’s feet, bread, and gin, there’s plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?” – Fats Waller, American jazz pianist and singer Almost six years ago, shortly after moving down here… oh wait, happy anniversary to me! Today is six years since the day I moved down here,… Read More The Platter of Little Feet
“The diner is everybody’s kitchen.” – Richard Gutman, author, American Diner: Then & Now Just exactly what is a diner? That’s a question that has probably been asked by many a food writer on the topic, and even more so, what constitutes a diner menu? A quick and very informal survey of some friends yielded… Read More Star Spangled Diner
“If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: ‘Is it not better to have good goulash?’” – Nikita Khrushchev I really wanted to use the lyrics from Allan Sherman’s Hungarian Goulash as my opening quote, but I’ve already done so. But this one wasn’t bad.… Read More Hungry for Hungary?
“BAAL, n. An old deity formerly much worshiped under various names. As Baal he was popular with the Phoenicians; as Belus or Bel he had the honor to be served by the priest Berosus, who wrote the famous account of the Deluge; as Babel he had a tower partly erected to his glory on the… Read More A Little Sun God in Winter