The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Donald Kendall, Co-founder of PepsiCo Buenos Aires – It’s not that I want to give short shrift to our private dinners. In some ways they’re among the best we offer, because generally, the request is something to the effect of “pick out… Read More It Worked!
“Mind you, that’s not to say presentation is everything. At the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter how nice your coffee machine is. What counts is the quality of the service that you offer.” – Peter Bolton-King, chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents Buenos Aires – I turn to my… Read More Exquisite
“The Día das Letras Galegas (Galician for “Galician Literature Day”) is a holiday in Galicia, a region in northwest Spain. This holiday has taken place on May 17 since 1963 when the first event was held to commemorate the centenary of Cantares gallegos, the first work written in the Galician language by Rosalía de Castro… Read More Lit Day
Treebeard marched on, signing with the others for a while. But after a time, his voice died to a murmur and fell silent again. Pippin could see that his old brow was wrinkled and knotted. At last he looked up, and Pippin could see a sad look in his eyes, sad but not unhappy. There… Read More Raw Once Again… or More
The singular remarkable fact about the Basques is that they still exist.” – Mark Kurlansky, The Basque History of the World Buenos Aires – Leandro “Koko” Egozcue is not a name that’s familiar to everyone who dines in Buenos Aires, but it’s a name that ought to start being so. He’s the young and quite… Read More “Because I am Basque, and the Basques cook Basque”
“You shouldn’t speak until you know what you’re talking about. That’s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? They hand me a script. I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.” – Brad Pitt, Actor Buenos Aires… Read More Interviews…
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.” – Irving Berlin, Composer Buenos Aires – One of the things I get asked about most with Casa SaltShaker is “do dishes ever just turn out terrible?” or something similiar to that. After all, often, especially when I’m… Read More Irving
“To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.” – Walter Benjamin, theologian, essayist Buenos Aires – There’s no question that much of what Franz Kafka wrote had a major impact on… Read More Description of a Struggle