It’s been a colder, wetter few days and a big pot of locro seemed in order. It was time to get back to my list of the various regional South American locros, this time, we head to northwest Argentina and the province of Catamarca (Quechua word meaning… hillside fortress). Catamarca is the province that’s sort of salmon-colored… Read More The L Word – From the Hillside Fortress
For most of my life I’ve thought about something that has a corkscrew shape as a “spiral”. But it turns out that’s wrong – something maybe that was buried in the back of my mind from school years, but never connected. A spiral is a two dimensional figure, like a drawing on paper. When you… Read More Double Helix
It’s been since mid-pandemic that I haven’t written a Where to Eat recommendation piece. There have been too many mediocre or bad spots recently, and writing about them was depressing me, so I’m just not going to this time around. There were half a dozen forgettable spots, I’ve added them to my maps, without any more… Read More Where to Eat #13
We’ve talked about this before. There’s classic, homestyle kind of Peruvian cooking, and there’s the newer, Japanese fusion style Nikkei cooking. And there are places that clearly fall in one camp or the other, and some that aren’t so easily defined. And, of course, there are some scattered “other” types, like the occasional find of… Read More Peruvian Gamut in Three
Sushi, Tempura, Dumplings. These are a few of my favorite things. Okay, there’s only one tempura item in this Bite Marks-ish, or Chop Suey-ish roundup, but it works for the title, so I’m going with it. Let’s start along Pasaje Echevarria. Those of us who spend a lot of time in Chinatown know that there have… Read More STDs
I’m just going to throw out a (not so) wild guess that 99.9% of you have never encountered Pasta alla zozzona before. We’re still hanging out in Rome – I mentioned months ago that in response to someone’s assertion that there were really only four true Roman pastas that I could come up with dozens or… Read More Dirty Satisfying Little Pasta Secret
I have been a bit less active with planning Roving Ravenous Horde activities. Personal/family stuff that just left me a bit lacking in enthusiasm for social stuff, though I’m moving through it. Still, over the last month we actually made it out twice, which is our usual schedule – I just didn’t put as much effort into… Read More Twice Again, The Horde
It’s that time again, a new month, and a look back at the last month, Mais… err… May. Once again, a select dish from each of our Casa SaltShaker dinners. This time, only three, as we were away for a week in Santiago, Chile. Somewhere along the line in my pasta posts I’ll get into… Read More Mais Oui…