Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
“Each heart taken is one point, and the Queen of spades is a whopping 13 points. If a single player takes all 13 hearts cards, and the queen of spades, the effect on the scoring is reversed all other players receive 26 points. This is called “shooting the moon.” – from the rules for Hearts… Read More Shoot the Moon
“Singapore’s other primal passion is eating, and it really is fairly difficult to find any food in Singapore about which to complain. About the closest you could come would be the observation that it’s all very traditional fare of one kind or another, but that hardly seems fair…. The food in Singapore, particularly the endless… Read More We Go Hawker
“Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let’s stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.” – Anne Raver, author, specialist in gardening books Buenos Aires – It’s strange. I openly declare, nearly two years ago,… Read More Golden Ears
“I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.” – Adrian Belew, guitarist and singer Buenos Aires – Having fallen a bit behind in my various postings, I realized I hadn’t been keeping up on the last sessions of our Color Palate of Italy course. The first group finished up the ten session class this… Read More Classy Quartet
“Our great challenge, our great battle, is to produce food in Nicaragua. We have to fill Nicaragua with food, even in our yards at home, we have to plant a little bit of beans and corn. This will mean income, and will assure us food… it will allow us to export to international markets, to… Read More Sandwichnistas
“I never planned in my imagination, a situation so heavenly A fairy land that no one else could enter – from Stars Fell On Alabama Buenos Aires – Thirty years ago this past weekend, the Shah of Iran’s reign over the country once known as Persia ended, and he and his family fled to Egypt.… Read More A Shah Fell On Eslamabad
“I am incapable of conceiving infinitiy and yet I do not accept finity.” – Simone de Beauvoir, author, feminist Buenos Aires – Well before it was politically correct or even remotely in fashion, let alone acceptable, to talk and write about feminisim and female sexuality, Simone de Beauvoir was doing so. Last weekend she joined… Read More Sextennial
Thanks to all who enquired, I’m fine. Just a combination of a little swamped with a project I got behind on and swapping to a different computer that doesn’t have all the bells and whistles installed on it the way I like them. I’ll be back up and writing regular posts after this weekend… In… Read More Still Here