“Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.” – Samuel Johnson, poet, writer Buenos Aires – ‘Twas a busy weekend, with both a couple of regular Casa S dinners and a private event hosted by an engaged couple (norteamericano and argentine) to let their families get to know each other. I won’t… Read More Argy with a Twist
“Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks.” – Anonymous Buenos Aires – You know us, always on the lookout for a new Peruvian restaurant, and especially one that either a) serves authentic Trujillana cuisine, which Henry… Read More Just Fish
In November 1889, the young army officer Felicíssimo do Espírito Santo Cardoso handed a dismissal letter to Dom Pedro II and conducted the Emperor to the ship that would carry him into exile. That act was more symbolic of the change from monarchy to republic than Field Marshal Deodoro’s cry of “Long live the Republic!”… Read More Paint by Numbers 5
“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It is, as common people say, so ‘upsetting;’ it makes you think that, after all, your favourite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded; it is certain that till now there was no place allotted in your mind to… Read More Gamboling
“The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity.” – Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky, Composer Buenos Aires – Mandioca. Cassava. Manioc. Yuca. Tapioca. Manihot. Aipim. Boba. Macaxeira. Chhiū-chï. Balinghoy. Singkong. Pokok ubi kayu. Sắn. A tuber by any other name would still be a root in the ground, no? Here, we… Read More Roots – Chapter One
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” – Yogi Berra, former Baseball Player and Manager Buenos Aires – It’s been a pizza kind of week, and part of that, as always, is the search for better and better pizza in town. A couple that came to… Read More Any Way You Slice It
“The sun of my Cuba Salutes me good morning I take breakfast and come out The whole world is already up Hey chico turn the volume up Coz I love this bolero And this line to buy the bread, goes around the entire world anyway Now picture La Habana The old streets with colonel air… Read More Guantanamo
“And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven’t yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture… Read More Chopsticks