“Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.” – Oscar Wilde, author Buenos Aires – A couple of months ago I received a note from a charming young man in the San Francisco area who writes a blog called Cooking With The Single Guy. He wanted to reserve a spot at Casa SaltShaker, but in addition,… Read More Entrevista
“Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother’s tasted better the day before.” – Rita Rudner, comedienne Buenos Aires – Just to set your minds at ease, we did indeed celebrate Thanksgiving here. Not in Casa S, but we headed over to friends’ in San Telmo for a turkey dinner with the fixin’s. While… Read More T-Day
“A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable language that originates seemingly as a nativized pidgin…. While it is arguable that creoles share more grammatical similarities with each other than with the languages they phylogenetically derive from, no theory for explaining creole phenomena has been universally accepted. The relationship between pidgins and creoles… Read More Pocho Chino
“Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom?” – Terry Pratchett, Author Buenos Aires – Bored? Sitting at home wishing you had something to do, something to stimulate your interest, your intellect, your skills, your tastebuds? In town for just… Read More How Do I Make…?
“I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don’t know. You can make up anything on the radio.” – Phil Rizzuto, baseball player, sports announcer Buenos Aires – Harkening back to the posts from last week covering my trip in Mendoza, I mentioned a couple of times David… Read More On the Radio
“Some may try and tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in… Read More Ushering in the Next 50
“Whereas some of my contemporaries may be satisfied to embrace aging gracefully as part of the cycle of life, that is not my view. It may be ‘natural,’ but I don’t see anything positive in losing my mental agility, sensory acuity, physical limberness, sexual desire, or any other human ability. I view disease and death… Read More Half Century, Nowhere Near Halfway
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” – Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Buenos Aires –… Read More Unknown Flavors