Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
“Learn to pause … or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.” – Doug King, author Buenos Aires – With private parties and multiple menus, it seems like I’m falling further and further behind in keeping up with posts about our dinners. Plus, I’m not sure that I really need to writeup every single recipe… Read More Catch-Up
“When you travel in Vietnam, you will find a fantastic mix of culture and nature. Its perfect blend of frenetic cities, untouched countryside and island hideaways promises to leave you breathless. The cities retain the grandeur of their colonial past- the wide boulevards and narrow alleyways alive with iconic cyclos, and the air thick with… Read More Good Evening Vietnam!
“It is the meeting place of East and West. The very new rubs shoulders with the immeasurably old… All these strange people live close to each other, with different languages and different thoughts; they believe in different gods and they have different values; two passions alone they share, love and hunger. And somehow as you… Read More Aloha Argentina
“I learned just enough in school to figure out that everything is not all there is to know.” – Anonymous Buenos Aires – Someone asked me yesterday if we’re still offering classes. The answer is yes – we just happen to be in the middle of two longer term series: a third round of our… Read More School’s in Session
“Few Americans have heard of these tiny villages, set like jewels into the Ligurian Coast and known as the Cinque Terre. The Cinque Terre is one of those places people tend to read about once and then dream about forever.” – Hidden Gems on the Italian Riviera, Los Angeles Times Buenos Aires – As usual,… Read More Italian Riviera
“The Caribbean writer today is a creature balanced between limbo and nothingness, exile abroad and homelessness at home. – Jan Carew, novelist Buenos Aires – With Ushuaia now left in the distance, though I will be back at some time to check out all the stuff I didn’t get to, and perhaps continue on to… Read More Taíno Take-off
“The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.” – Vincent van Gogh Buenos Aires – Last weekend’s dinners whisked in with… Read More Ring Around the Mediterranean
“I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It’s been about two months since I’ve worked out. And I just don’t have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a… Read More Do You Guys Eat Like This…?