“Oh, better, no doubt, is a dinner of herbs, When seasoned by love, which no rancor disturbs, And sweetened by all that is sweetest in life, Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten with strife.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, politician, poet & novelist It was the Nanakusa-no-sekku, the Festival of Seven Wild, Edible Herbs of Spring. In… Read More The Seven Herbs of Spring
“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.” – Swami Sivananda Given the few in number restaurants in Barrio Chino, you’d have thought by now I’d have tried them all. But no, there are still several that I haven’t gotten to. So, that’s on the… Read More Is Evvvverybody Happy? Más o Menos
A continuation of the last post, simply because I had so many pictures, and we’d only made it halfway through the circuito turistico. This is the half of the walk that is often what people set out for – the four museums of Tigre – unfortunately, being a Monday that we were there, all but… Read More More Tigre’s Eye…
“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” – Jorge Luis Borges It’s been awhile since I’ve… Read More Eye of the Tigre
“Vulcan was a small planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun. In an attempt to explain peculiarities of Mercury’s orbit, in the 19th-century French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph LeVerrier hypothesized that they were the result of another planet, which he named Vulcan. No such planet was ever found, and Mercury’s… Read More Live Long & Have Some Dinner
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” – Edith Lovejoy Pierce, poet No electrical trials nor tribulations struck this weekend to hamper our end and beginning of the year festivities. Instead… Read More Chau 2010, Hola 2011!
“I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27. – Clement Atlee, former British Prime Minister Before getting on to my write-ups of this weekend’s dinners, a brief look back at the last two classes of 2010, the “other two” of our Four Chinese Meals – the north and the south, represented by… Read More The Other 2 of 4…
“The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.” – Boutros Boutros-Ghali It’s always tough to wrap-up a year, but it’s also kind of fun to just look… Read More The 2010 Wrap-Up