Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
“I suggest preparing a nice dinner that is loaded with her favorite foods, wine, desserts, etc., especially if it is just the two of you and there are no kids to worry about. Most men really mess this up. Can you believe that one of our employees actually received an air freshener, because it was… Read More Love is in the Air
“King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, by the grace of God, King and Queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon, Sicily, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, the Balearic Islands, Seville, Sardinia, Cordoba, Corsica, Murcia, Jaen, of the Algarve, Algeciras, Gibraltar, and of the Canary Islands, count and countess of Barcelona and lords of Biscay and Molina, dukes of Athens… Read More The Edict
Pakistani cuisine is as diverse as it’s people. Most of Pakistani cuisine has Afghan-Turkic-Iranian roots, a legacy of Muslim rule in South Asia, which got ‘Indianized’ due to the greater usage of spices; this is specially true for Pakistani Punjabis, Sindhis and Muhajirs (also Muslims in India); whereas Pakistani Pashtuns and Baluchese have retained their… Read More Land of the Pure
Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.” – Erma Bombeck, Advice Columnist Buenos Aires – My instructions were simple – as befits those coming from a group… Read More Hot Island Hopping
“Absurdity, only you are pure. Absurdity, only before you is this excess sweated out of golden pleasure. – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet and writer Buenos Aires – This last weekend we celebrated the 115th birthday of Peruvian poet César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza. He wasn’t in attendance, having moved on in 1938. But it gave us… Read More Peru Prandial
Another interesting aspect of tomato’s rise to popularity was the debate whether it should be classified as a fruit or a vegetable. While this might seem trivial to most, its classification was greatly important to those who first grew it commercially because of taxation and import tariffs established to protect American vegetable growers. The issue… Read More The State Fruit of New Jersey
Wai-Tung Gao: I don’t know, we should have moved you out. Simon: I’ll survive. Wai-Tung Gao: Not if Wei Wei keeps cooking – from The Wedding Banquet Buenos Aires – My computer is acting up, so apologies if my posts are a bit scattered over the next few days… we shall see where I get… Read More The Wedding Banquet
“It was almost two. At that hour, weighted down by drowsiness, the town was taking a siesta. The stores, the town offices, the public school were closed at eleven, and didn’t reopen until a little before four, when the train went back. Only the hotel across from the station, with its bar and pool hall,… Read More Tuesday Fiesta