We’re getting there. Almost a hundred of these Bite Marks columns! And jeez, coming up on three thousand blog posts! Maybe when I hit those two benchmarks I’ll take a break for a little while. Probably not. On to our casual eats of the last couple of weeks…. El Bodegón de la Calle Ayacucho, Ayacucho… Read More Bite Marks #95
Last year, along with many other folk in the “foodie” world, I eagerly watched the first season of Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. I enjoyed the scenery and the food, especially the food, and I liked that in each of the six episodes, at some point or another, he took the time to learn how to… Read More Tucci #4
A Kohlrabi, that’s what! A “German Turnip”, despite the fact that it’s neither German in origin, nor a turnip. It’s in the cabbage family, and it’s a fattened stalk of a plant that basically looks like, well, a big green turnip, and the name, I guess, is German, meaning “cabbage turnip”. Whatever! I put some… Read More You Put What in my Stew?
It has been many moons since we checked in on Germán Martitegui. Last we saw, he was helming his half eponymous Tegui restaurant to much acclaim around the globe. Or perhaps as the “bad boy” judge on Masterchef Argentina. Towards the end of last year, Tegui closed, I’m assuming from lack of business as the pandemic… Read More Veg-Edibles!
Quite the grab-bag of places this time around, and a whopping six of them! So, settle in…. Nah, I’ll keep them brief and mostly let the photos do the talking. Let’s start “simple” and move on…. La Parri, Dr. José Modesto Giuffra 341, San Telmo (not to be confused with La Parri out on Av.… Read More Bite Marks #94
An interestingly homogeneous evening in some ways, as the various of the ten folk who attended dinner were all from different parts of the US, most of them students or just recent graduates, and all down here either for some sort of research or internships in their respective fields. Sometimes, things just work out that… Read More 2022 Menu #22
I’m sitting here listening to Rossini’s Zelmira, a three-hour opera, because, well, it’s germane to today’s little review. I have, many times over the years, passed by a corner bodegón here in Recoleta called La Tía Zelmira, French 3015, corner of Sanchez de Bustamante. Aunt Zelmira’s place. An unusual name, I thought, finding out that it’s of Italian… Read More Shine Bright
A nicely international dinner with folk from in and around Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Seattle. Conversation bounced between Spanish and English, and, I’m reasonably certain that all had a good time. We’ve tentatively been asked by one of the locals to come out to their home in the province (about an hour away) and… Read More 2022 Menu #21