Mostly wine related, perhaps a review of one or more wines, or a wine tasting. Sometimes other beverages as well – spirits, or even non-alcohol drinks, if you can believe that!
“Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.” – Nam June Paik, pioneering moving image artist Buenos… Read More Half & Half
“A square egg in a dish of lentils won’t make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid’s leg.” – Les Dawson, British Comedian Buenos Aires – That’s so pretty, I should just let it speak for itself. And, for the moment, I will. Sunday was a whirlwind… Read More Of Books, Wine, & Lentils
“Here lies Raffaello who, when alive, Nature was afraid to be won by him, when he died, she wanted to die herself.” – Pietro Bembo, 16th century Italian cardinal and scholar – Inscription on the tomb of Raffaelo Sanzio, Italian artist more commonly just known as Rafael Buenos Aires – There were two influences on… Read More Green Italian
“I suggest preparing a nice dinner that is loaded with her favorite foods, wine, desserts, etc., especially if it is just the two of you and there are no kids to worry about. Most men really mess this up. Can you believe that one of our employees actually received an air freshener, because it was… Read More Love is in the Air
“King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, by the grace of God, King and Queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon, Sicily, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, the Balearic Islands, Seville, Sardinia, Cordoba, Corsica, Murcia, Jaen, of the Algarve, Algeciras, Gibraltar, and of the Canary Islands, count and countess of Barcelona and lords of Biscay and Molina, dukes of Athens… Read More The Edict
Pakistani cuisine is as diverse as it’s people. Most of Pakistani cuisine has Afghan-Turkic-Iranian roots, a legacy of Muslim rule in South Asia, which got ‘Indianized’ due to the greater usage of spices; this is specially true for Pakistani Punjabis, Sindhis and Muhajirs (also Muslims in India); whereas Pakistani Pashtuns and Baluchese have retained their… Read More Land of the Pure
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.” – Aristophanes, 4th century BCE Greek comedy writer Buenos Aires – A bunch of sloshed lookin’ folks, no? My friend Alex proposed we have a wine tasting, we’d had one a few months ago and had great… Read More The Wine Lineup
“It was almost two. At that hour, weighted down by drowsiness, the town was taking a siesta. The stores, the town offices, the public school were closed at eleven, and didn’t reopen until a little before four, when the train went back. Only the hotel across from the station, with its bar and pool hall,… Read More Tuesday Fiesta