Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
We’re still in limbo on the whole quarantine or social isolation thing here. A lot of, too many, people have taken it as license to just drop it all and start partying, dinner-ing, walking around in the streets without masks, and despite admonitions from the government about penalties for doing so, it appears little, if… Read More Qream of Mushroom Soup
While cases of C-19 continue to rise here, they’re rising more or less steadily at the same numbers every day. Have we plateaued? Hard to say yet, but our fingers are all crossed. The mortality rate overall is going down… slowly, but going down, and the recovery rate, obviously, is rising in tandem. They’re still… Read More More Qans of Beer!
I’ll keep the quarantine notes light this time – extended once again, until August 16th. They didn’t roll things back as we feared they might here once again, since numbers are continuing to climb (but not exponentially, just steadily). The health ministry is now estimating we’ll hit our “peak” right around that date, in mid-August.… Read More Q Cooking – Tail On Fire
I almost don’t even want to explore where things are at in the quarantine here in BA anymore. Suffice it to say, we’re still in it. Some loosening of restrictions, but not very much, and there’s disagreement over where the numbers are headed, so one day the talking heads are saying we’re proceeding cautiously with… Read More Some Qans of Beer
Well, we’re back into phase one of “recovery” as of yesterday. We got back our one hour a day exercise privileges… sort of. Alternate days, depending on our national ID number, though extended hours – now from 6pm until 10am. And a lot more businesses have been allowed to re-open. Food service still limited to… Read More Qasa SaltShaker – Lamb Ossobuco
Day 115. Yup, we’re still here in quarantine. Is the renewed lockdown working? Probably too soon to be sure, though the daily rise in cases, while it continues, seems to be slowing, and the mortality rate is definitely declining, so there’s hope. As scheduled, we have another nine days, until next Friday – I have… Read More Qasa SaltShaker – Pan Chapla
Today, something you haven’t seen in over three months. Restaurants! Bet you were beginning to think that would never happen again. No, we haven’t entered the latter phases of re-opening, in fact, effective today, we here in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, are back under stricter quarantine rules due to a spike in area cases.… Read More From Outside the Qasa
Yes, this Quarantine is going to go on forever. Here we are, two weeks into being allowed to go out in the evenings for a walkabout, finally, at the point we were almost three months into it, for a bit of exercise. The city’s mayor just extended the hours by two to give us a… Read More Qasa SaltShaker – Vincisgrassi