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“Because I am Basque, and the Basques cook Basque”
2008-05-15 14:21:58
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 talented chef [...] ...

Interviews…
2008-05-14 21:19:10
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 - A [...] ...

Irving
2008-05-14 19:05:27
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 in the [...] ...

Description of a Struggle
2008-05-11 14:45:19
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 the western [...] ...

Fall Back
2008-05-08 14:12:56
[America’s] first settlers were emigrants from different European nations, and of diversified professions of religion, retiring from governmental persecutions of the old world, and meeting in the new, not as enemies, but as brothers. The wants which necessarily accompany the cultivation of a wilderness, produced among them a state of society, which countries, long harassed [...] ...

Crisis, Schmeisisâ€¦
2008-05-07 16:32:03
Everybody has a plan to save the Middle East. That guy with the bumper sticker does. Most of your friends do. Neocons have a plan. Peaceniks have a plan. Likudniks have a plan. The Bush Administration certainly thinks it has one, and weâ€™re told the Democrats are working on theirs. Tom Clancy imagined deploying the [...] ...

How to Roll a Falafel (and other stories)
2008-05-04 17:51:25
A waiter arrived with a tray of falafel, the one item on the menu that didn’t taste as if it had been scraped off the wick of Aladdin’s lamp.” - Tom Robbins, skinny legs and all Buenos Aires - Continuing on my educational journey about one cuisine or another or method of cooking, I noted in passing, [...] ...

Red Hats at Nightâ€¦
2008-04-30 15:42:25
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired And gobble up samples in shops and press [...] ...

Barrio of Change
2008-04-27 15:14:46
…born in a mansion and died in a shack…” - from A Fierce Green Fire by Marybeth Lorbiecki Buenos Aires - I’ve been to the barrio of Barracas (literally “shacks”) before, but always with a particular destination in mind. A friend suggested we take a real wander through the neighborhood - perhaps over time more than one, [...] ...

Why Is This Night…?
2008-04-26 14:45:55
One could argue that these [today’s] ‘plagues’ are fundamentally different than the ones in the Passover story because they can be seen as humankind’s own creations and not sent by God. - Dan Weiss, Only 10 plagues? Early Egyptians had it easy Buenos Aires - Most Jewish kids I knew when I was growing up dreaded Passover. [...] ...

Fire Eyes
2008-04-23 16:14:52
The government of Swaziland, one of Africa’s poorest and most Aids-ridden countries, has defended plans to spend nearly $2,5-million on celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of independence. Opposition deputies have called for the celebrations, which will also mark King Mswati III’s 40th birthday, to be scrapped or scaled down given that most of the [...] ...

Trio of Oddities
2008-04-22 15:10:42
The whole country is filled with adventures, but there is adventure just in the visual landscape alone. There is always something familiar, but if it looks too familiar, you just have to look a little farther for the oddity.” - Chris Patterson Buenos Aires - Oddiites, curiosities, serendipities… A trio of restaurants that I’ve found myself in [...] ...

End of Summer Sausage
2008-04-19 17:59:32
Summer sausage is the general term for any sausage that can be kept without the need of refrigeration. Summer sausage is usually a mixture of pork and other meat such as beef and venison. Summer sausage can be either dried or smoked, and curing ingredients can vary significantly, although some sort of curing salt is [...] ...

Songkran
2008-04-17 16:18:41
Songkran, the most vigorous of Thailand’s festivals, was the official Thai New Year until 1941. Formerly tied to the movement of the sun, modern Songkran takes place from 13-15th April. Songkran began as a ceremonial bathing of Buddha images as part of a new year’s spring cleaning ritual. However, it has degenerated over the years [...] ...

Lotus Blossom
2008-04-16 15:22:49
I can’t just take someone’s word for it. I am a skeptic. I am also skeptical about crop circles, alien abductions, Nostradamus, and psychic surgery. I haven’t believed in a six day creation in a very long time. But it is tough to be a skeptic these days.” - Margaret C. Douma, Surfing for Skeptics Buenos Aires [...] ...

Passion… Fruit…
2008-04-15 15:22:32
I’d like to be a passion fruit. Not because it’s passionate, but because someone I know is mad about them and has got me onto them.” - Joseph Fiennes, Actor Buenos Aires - Private party. Birthday. No seafood. Maybe something vaguely mixed Latin American. A tasty causa topped with a chicken salad instead of tuna salad and [...] ...

Unknown Flavors
2008-04-13 15:26:15
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” - Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Buenos Aires - Don really [...] ...

House Wine
2008-04-09 16:08:46
When it comes to traveling these are some wonders I’d like to see: A cabdriver who understands English, especially in America. A place in the world where you can’t get a Big Mac and a Coke. A headwaiter who hides his scorn when you order the house wine.” - George Burns, Comedian Buenos Aires - Several people [...] ...

Bette Davis Ayes
2008-04-08 16:00:25
Just because someone is dead does not mean they have changed!” - Bette Davis, when it was suggested she not speak ill of the dead Buenos Aires - I may continue on this trend of centennial birthdays, more or less - we had so much fun with Carmen Miranda’s 99th and Anna Magnani’s 100th, that I couldn’t [...] ...

In Merguez Waters
2008-04-06 16:26:23
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.” - Alan Patrick Herbert, Novelist Buenos Aires - I decline to enter the debate, and yes, there is a debate - well, more like hotly contested opinions - as to what constitutes a true merguez sausage. Given that merguez simply means [...] ...

Noted…
2008-04-05 17:36:13
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.” - Thomas Carlyle, Philosopher Buenos Aires - Just a few random notes… Disco, one of the local supermarkets, is three deep with people at the meat, i.e., beef, counter. With the 30-day suspension of the strike, people are battling over the packages of red meat like they’re [...] ...

Fire & Spice, an’ Everything Nice
2008-04-05 16:24:18
The Jalapeño takes its name from the city of Xalapa (Jalapa), Mexico where it is thought to have originated. The Jalapeño pepper has since gained tremendous fame due to its versatility in the food industry. Jalapeño Peppers are commonly found in most chain stores, processed sliced and canned. The Jalapeño features a sweet, but [...] ...

The Cure
2008-04-03 16:46:36
Three faces wears the doctor: When first sought, An angel’s and a god’s the cure half-wrought; But when, the cure complete he seeks his fee, The devil looks less terrible than he. - Unknown (quoted in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations) Buenos Aires - A few weeks back I ran a post about my sausage making and meat curing class. It was a [...] ...

The League of Extraordinary Beans
2008-04-02 16:14:29
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 [...] ...

Food with ‘Tude
2008-03-31 15:55:10
The… difference is that of attitude. But that difference determines who gets ideas and who does not. An apathetic or hostile attitude is the enemy of creative thought. Ideas, like people, flourish when they are welcomed and embraced.” - Barbara J. Winter, Teacher, Author Buenos Aires - I arrived about ten to fifteen minutes before the first [...] ...

Alban Elfed
2008-03-26 14:30:14
The egg standing myth was born with an article penned by Annalee Jacoby in the March 19, 1945 issue of Life magazine. Ms. Jacoby was on assignment in China at that time, when she witnessed a peculiar Chinese ritual. In China, the first day of spring is called Li Chun, and they reckon it to [...] ...

Acid Heads
2008-03-24 14:55:43
Those quotation marks around “cooked” have been driving me nuts for years. Virtually every mention of ceviche (seh-VEE-chay; I’ll use the Spanish spelling) by food writers is accompanied by a gratuitous statement to the effect that lime juice does to protein what heat does to protein, and therefore that the fish is essentially “cooked” by [...] ...

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2008-03-23 15:09:29
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” - from Life of Pi Buenos Aires - I do seem to be falling behind on the dinner posts… hmm… well, I’ll try to get caught back up. Here we are a week after Pi Day, which, of course, [...] ...

Deep Thought?
2008-03-21 14:16:10
We are all in deep thought, hurting, wanting to say something that will help us understand. Whatever we have to say probably pales in comparison to what those who have gone on would say to us.” - Eugene Habecker, President, Taylor University Buenos Aires - It’s not all food, wine, and architecture you know. There’s alot going [...] ...

Playing Favorites
2008-03-19 14:46:09
I was the main complainer about not having my favorite dishes, and then someone suggested that I open my own restaurant.” - Gary Edwards, Owner, Sister Sue’s, Asbury Park Buenos Aires - Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that while Casa S is getting busier and busier, especially with private events, that I spend more time [...] ...

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