Disco Rice
There’s just nothing right about this, other than perhaps being a cute play on word pronunciation in Spanish… …and the ads are inane. Just sayin’.
Rally ‘Round the Dinner Table
“In 1909 the Automobile Club de Monaco (Sport Automobile Velocipedique Monegasque) started planning a car rally at the behest of Albert I, Prince of Monaco. The Monte Carlo Rally was to start at points all over Europe and converge on Monte Carlo. In January 1911 23 cars set out from 11 different locations and Rougier… Read More Rally ‘Round the Dinner Table
You Are Now Entering V-Burg, Part 3
“If there’s just one piece of advice i can give you, it’s this – when there’s something you really want, fight for it, don’t give up no matter how hopeless it seems. And when you’ve lost hope, ask yourself if 10 years from now, you’re gonna wish you gave it just one more shot. because… Read More You Are Now Entering V-Burg, Part 3
Another Day with St. Pete
…continuing from where we left off in the last post. The best laid plans and all that, I’d figured on an early start, get out, walk around, see a bit of San Pedro, and start hitting the museums when they open at 9, since their morning hours are 9-12, and then they don’t reopen until… Read More Another Day with St. Pete
Day Trip – Saint Peter’s Burg
“The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.” – Robert Fulghum, author, essayist The guests lingered over their coffee and water. Dinner was long over. We… Read More Day Trip – Saint Peter’s Burg
Best Chef in the World?
“I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all, but remark all these roughness, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me; otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.” – Oliver Cromwell I’ve reached the point in living overseas where I… Read More Best Chef in the World?
Happy Thai Pongal
“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.” – Henry Miller, author I got my holidays mixed up, confused, jumbled… You see, it wasn’t actually the Tamil New Year this last weekend, which actually happens on April 14th or 15th, and this year will start the new year of… Read More Happy Thai Pongal
A Bagel Does not a Deli Make
“Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.” – Milton Berle, comedian I’ve been hearing rumors recently of a quasi-New York Deli out in Villa Crespo. No one was claiming a reincarnation of Katz’s, but there was much hinting that it might just be “the… Read More A Bagel Does not a Deli Make