Dinner reviews from our Casa SaltShaker evenings
“On the night before his coronation, Sir Hari and his peers dined off the traditional gold plate, while their underlings supped from silver. Next day he rode out at the head of the state procession of elephants. His favorite pony, which trotted after, was decked with a jeweled harness, containing among other gems an emerald… Read More Land of Nightingales and Roses
“Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada…. Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.” – Paul Prudhomme, Chef Buenos Aires – You’d think, given the constant harping about lack of… Read More How Y’All Are?
“It’s all about popular! It’s not about aptitude It’s the way you’re viewed So it’s very shrewd to be Very very popular Like me!” – excerpted from lyrics to Popular from the show Wicked Buenos Aires – Let’s face it, who doesn’t want to be popular, part of the in-crowd… well, we finally made it… Read More The in Crowd
“…I intend writing a history of my wanderings in the Banda Oriental, and I will call my book “The Purple Land”; for what more suitable name can one find for a country so stained with the blood of her children? You will never read it, of course, for I shall write it in English, and… Read More The Purple Land
In May of 2007 we were featured as one of two restaurants on a local broadcast on the Telefe channel about the "phenomenon" of restaurants in local homes. Unfortunately, our recorder screwed up and recorded only picture without sound. Luckily, Martin Mangiaterra over at Caracoles para da Vinci, the other restaurant featured, recorded it, got… Read More Telefe
“Does anyone make better soup than the Portuguese? I doubt it. Certainly no one makes better bread. And no one, I suspect, knows more ways to prepare salt cod.” – Jean Anderson, The Food of Portugal Buenos Aires – I’m going to claim a complete lack of creativity… more or less. I don’t know a… Read More Sailing the High Seas
“I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven’t just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.” – William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist Buenos Aires – I can’t claim surprise, at least not in the end. I was a bit… Read More Pressed Again
My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissentions with those who are embarked in the same great national interest with, myself; as every difference of this kind must in its consequence be very injurious.” – General George Washington Buenos… Read More Harmony Reigns