Stuff about books or articles I’ve read, shows or movies I’ve watched – usually food or wine related, but not always.
Probably my favorite art museum in Buenos Aires is the private museum in the former studio of the influential, and quirky, Argentine painter and sculptor Xul Solar. The museum, at Laprida 1212, in Recoleta, is open Tuesday to Saturday from noon to 8 p.m., entrance fee is currently 4000 pesos, about $3, with, I believe,… Read More Sunlight on Xul
Yes, another week has passed. What did I get up to? Those of you who’ve been around since the beginning, or on and off through the years, might remember my annual attendance at Limud, a day of presentations and lectures on various topics related to Judaism. I’ve been going since 2008, and have only missed a… Read More Sennight #4
We’re back with Stan! Yes, it’s been awhile. The dish I’m about to demonstrate uses lamb stock and I kept putting off making some sort of lamb dish in order to have lamb bones leftover to make stock from. But we were on a bit of a stew fetish for a couple of weeks there… Read More Tucci #8
I haven’t forgotten my Tucci series. Nor any of the series – like The Bread & Soup Project, or the L-Word Project, or getting to every Peruvian restaurant in the city, or, all the pizzerias, or shawarma, or… there are just too many of them, and as you may have noticed, I’m currently very devoted… Read More Tucci #7a
Making my way slowly through this last season’s episodes of Searching for Italy. I have to say, I’m finding it less interesting than the first season. It feels a little bit like Tucci lost interest in really talking to the people who he was meeting – we’re getting less about them and more about him. Celebrity… Read More Tucci #5
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
It’s been awhile since I did a round up of food and wine related books that I’ve read. Last September to be exact. So what have I been reading since then in this genre? In the order I read them. On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta, by Jen Lin-Liu… Read More Cooking the Books #10
On to our last entry for this season’s airing of our man Stan’s tromping about in Italy. In the fifth and sixth episodes he heads to Tuscany and Sicily. All past comments on the show could be repeated here, so I won’t. Let’s go straight to the food. In Tuscany we get our kitchen demo… Read More Two Tuccis #3