Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
“If my memory serves me correctly…” – Chairman Kaga, Iron Chef …I swore that if I did another Iron Chef style dinner that I’d ban chocolate as one of the ingredients, given that in all five previous iterations, that was one of the two ingredients selected. Okay, this time they said “cocoa”, but still. I… Read More Battle: Game & Cocoa
“The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past.” – Brian Koslow, entrepreneur and author We’re continuing our little walk down memory lane and re-creating favorite bits of menus from the past. Last time we left off with fall of 1996. Looking at… Read More The Early Years VI
“… Although your dominion is small, however, your State is one of the most honored of all history” – Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States When I spotted that this weekend was Republic Day in San Marino I thought that would be a great theme – especially with a sort of round number like… Read More Revisiting the Oldest Enclave
“The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.” – Israel Zangwill, author and political activist This weekend continued my project to go back to the early years of the Second Sunday Supper Club, my New… Read More The Early Years V
“The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.” – John Ciardi, poet and translator This winter has been a slow one here at Casa S. A massive drop-off in tourism due to the volcanic ash problems led to a huge number of cancellations for the dinners (during June and… Read More Veganasian
“Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.” – Alfred Whitney… Read More Mona Lisa Smiles
“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.” – Andre Malraux, French historian There’s an apartment in… Read More Days in Photos
“According to a legend that he agrees with, a young Mario Moreno, overwhelmed by stage fright, once, in the Ofelia carpa, forgets his original monologue. He begins to say what comes to mind in a complete emancipation of phrases and words, and what comes to mind is an incoherent brilliance. His assistants recite his attack… Read More 100 Years of Being Annoying