Stuff about books or articles I’ve read, shows or movies I’ve watched – usually food or wine related, but not always.
“It’s all about popular! It’s not about aptitude It’s the way you’re viewed So it’s very shrewd to be Very very popular Like me!” – excerpted from lyrics to Popular from the show Wicked Buenos Aires – Let’s face it, who doesn’t want to be popular, part of the in-crowd… well, we finally made it… Read More The in Crowd
“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.” – Dr. Carl Sagan, Scientist Buenos Aires – For those of you not familiar with bit-torrents, don’t go searching to find out, they’re… Read More Roll Tape
Buenos Aires – First off, a Happy New Year, or Happy Rosh Hashanah, or Shana Tova, in particular to any of my Jewish readers, friends, neighbors… though really, to everyone – today begins the year 5768, and we’ll just have to see what it has in store for SaltShaker, my life, and the lives of… Read More Happy New Stuff!
“The wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the revolution in American food that has made exotic ingredients, celebrity chefs, rarefied cooking tools, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives.” – back cover blurb from… Buenos Aires – …The United States of Arugula, by David Kamp, catchy title, no? Wish I’d have thought of… Read More With Liver and Giblets for All
“It’s hard to say how far they walked. They were in the forest for nine months, eating snails and leaves and whatever they could get.” – David Brandon Buenos Aires – I’ve just finished reading through the famed The Whole Beast: nose to tail eating by Fergus Henderson, a fun little recipe book for the… Read More Helices
Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don’t live up to their promises.” – John Dobbin Buenos Aires – I was just subjected to… well, no, I just subjected myself to… I mean, I didn’t have to say… Read More Coming Distractions
Click here to purchase the SaltShaker Spanish – English – Spanish Food & Wine Dictionary The dictionary is back, for those of you who’ve been asking – it’s finally been published in soft-cover version and is available from a print on demand publisher. Hopefully it’ll get picked up by some folks like Amazon and others…… Read More New and Improved
There’s a book out, and has been for awhile now, called Hungry Planet, by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio. It’s a photo essay of families from around the world each seated around a table with a week’s worth of groceries. Time magazine has just published an online selection of fifteen of those photos along with… Read More Hungry Planet Photos