Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
“Better the gurgling of a camel than the prayers of a fish.” – Moroccan proverb Buenos Aires – I’d been wanting to offer a middle eastern dinner of some sort for awhile, and Independence Day in Morocco seemed the perfect opportunity. I like the cuisine from that country in particular, because for me it embodies… Read More Shake Your Maracas!
“Only for the phony is commercialism – the bending of creativity to common utility – a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.” – Ernest A. Jones, Advertising Executive, Address at Cranbrook Academy of Art, June 2, 1964 Buenos Aires –Somewhere… Read More Joining the eCommerce World
Buenos Aires – You all remember 6LL3 don’t you? The cloned sheep that we were all up in arms about, some of us on one side of the issue, some on the other. Oh, yeah, you probably don’t know her by her “real” name, but by the name that some stockman who helped deliver her… Read More 6LL3
Buenos Aires – The new Summer/Autumn 2007 issue of Time Out Buenos Aires has hit the racks. I have a feature article on vegetarian dining, along with a dozen and a half new restaurant reviews in this edition. Casa SaltShaker also got nice writeups in both the review section and as part of a feature… Read More Green Dining in BsAs
Bugs Bunny: [to a little fawn] Hey, scram. Go on, beat it. the Tasmanian Devil’s liable to get you. He’s a mean, vicious, nasty, no-good, baggy-eyed, marble-headed ignoramorus. He’s a stupid… Tasmanian Devil: Flattery will get you nowhere. Buenos Aires – I’d barely posted the theme of “Australia Day” for this weekend’s Casa S dinner… Read More Gone Troppo
“Takes no nerve to do something, ain’t nothin’ else you can do.” – Tom, The Grapes of Wrath Buenos Aires – As many of you have noted, sometimes my “themes” for Casa SaltShaker menus seem to have little to do with food. But come on, the movie Grapes of Wrath… that’s food, right? Grapes! Just… Read More The Grapes of (No) Wrath
“Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.” – Kabbalah Buenos Aires – I’ve said many a time that my “themes” for our Casa SaltShaker are often loosely if at all based in the world of food. This weekend was a… Read More The Art of Preservation
“The western/central culinary region of China includes the provinces and cuisines of Szechuan and Hunan, two of China’s most ancient provinces…. The most distinctive features of this region’s cuisine reside in the flavour: flavour and freshness are emphasized far more than colour and appearance. This feature reflects the earthy, practical, ‘no-nonsense’ nature of the region’s… Read More Manifold Flavor