It’s spring fever…. You don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” – Mark Twain, author Buenos Aires – No question, spring has sprung in these parts. And what better place to stop off for lunch on a beautiful spring day in… Read More Spring in Spring
A CARTOON in The New Yorker many years ago depicted a disgruntled little girl confronted with a mysterious substance on her dinner plate. Though assured by her mother that it was broccoli, she remained unconvinced. ”I say it’s spinach,” she insisted, ”and I say the hell with it.” – Marian Burros, NY Times, 12/22/82 Buenos… Read More Transforming Vegetables into Fish
“My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It’s so good.” – Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress/singer Buenos Aires – A few weeks back I’d been wandering around Las Cañitas looking at one thing or another, and I noticed a new restaurant done up with some sort… Read More Veg-Out Delhi
Etymology: Middle English whirlegigg, from whirlen to whirl + gigg top Date: 15th century … 3 a: one that continuously whirls, moves, or changes b: a whirling or circling course (as of events) Buenos Aires – Yup, that’s been me this week. A little whirligig. Three Casa S dinners in a row, and all with… Read More Whirligig
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
“Vegetarian has long been used as the human equivalent of herbivore, which — along with carnivore — has traditionally been applied to nonhuman animals, for the good reason that vorare means not simply ‘eat’ but ‘eat like a wild animal’ (hence devour). The ending -arian generally denotes a conscious adherence, in contrast to the genetic… Read More The League of Extraordinary Beans
“Every object has a history, and behind that history an inventor, the person who thought it up first. Sometimes who was first can be a topic for hot debate: often several people independent of each other will all think of the same good idea at around the same time and will later have to argue… Read More Unidentified Frying Objects
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor Buenos Aires – One of the most common questions I get at Casa SaltShaker dinners, as well as via e-mail, is about the whole “restaurant de… Read More Culinary Investigations