“Phuket is Thailand’s largest island and nestles against the Indian Ocean Coast some 870 kilometers south of Bangkok. Then Phuket reveal itself, the pearl of the Andaman Sea with lush green hills as far you can see.” – Our Funny Planet Let’s just say that Phuket, Honduras 4169, Palermo, 4861-1679, isn’t lush and green, and… Read More Oh, Just Phuket….
Continuing on my little quest for a decent veggie burger here in Buenos Aires…. I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that Hard Rock Cafe in the Buenos Aires Design Center at Pueyrredón and Azcuénaga, serves up a decent veggie burger. It’s not a wow, but it’s well made, like most of the items that HRC… Read More You Are Now Entering V-Burg, Part 2
“When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.” – Lyndon B. Johnson, president of the U.S. Independence Day in Cyprus is likely a difficult time, after all, one-third of the island is occupied by Turkey and claimed by them as a sovereign… Read More Turkish? Greek? No, Cypriot!
I disliked Kitchen Confidential. Let’s just get that out of the way with. Let the hate mail begin. Anthony Bourdain’s hate fueled rage against the restaurant industry machine that ground him up and spit him out (with his admitted acquiescence… no, active participation) was, for me, nothing more than misdirected venom spewing about his days… Read More Medium Raw, or Half Baked?
“Sharks will eat sardines forever and ever. But they should eat them plain, without doctrinal oil, without legal jelly, without the cellophane wrapping paper.” – Juan José Arévalo, former President of Guatemala Like everyone else online, I regularly get e-mails that have a legal disclaimer attached to the bottom that basically says, ‘if you got… Read More The Place on Arévalo
Bruce Wayne: “Most Americans don’t realize what we owe to the ancient Incas. Very few appreciate they gave us the white potato and many varieties of Indian corn.” Dick Grayson: “Now whenever I eat mashed potatoes, I for one will think of the Incas.” – from the original Batman series, episode 24, Give ’em the… Read More Dynamic Duo
When last I signed off on my stroll along Av. Rivadavia we were at Plaza Miserere, the Once train and bus terminal. Picking up just past the plaza, we find a section of the avenue that was, at one time, a long stretch of beautiful homes, most of which have now become faded shells of… Read More Presidential Backbone – 4th Vertebra
“I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen but he could not read it, he thought I was just trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.” – Mitch Hedberg, comedian Just a few selections out of the last couple of dinners, as you’ve seen many of the dishes before….… Read More Dinner Highlights