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Put a ring on it

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Buenos Aires Herald On Sunday supplement Food and Wine “I can’t eat anything that has a face.” A common refrain from vegetarian friends. And sometimes not so vegetarian. I’ve heard the same from someone chowing… Put a ring on it

Behind the Eight-Ball

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Buenos Aires Herald On Sunday supplement Food and Wine One of the questions I get from visitors when I take them to local markets comes down to a sort of “how do you make sense… Behind the Eight-Ball

The glory of Cicero

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Buenos Aires Herald On Sunday supplement Food and Wine You all of course remember Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher from the 1st century B.C.E. – famed orator and enemy of the emperor and… The glory of Cicero

The painted fish

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Buenos Aires Herald On Sunday supplement Food and Wine It’s by far the most common fish found in markets here in Buenos Aires, and often the only fish found in many supermarkets (invariably frozen and… The painted fish

Behold the child of sea beet

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Buenos Aires Herald On Sunday supplement Food and Wine Sea beets are a wild vegetable that grow along the coasts of Europe, northern Africa and Asia. Though often referred to as wild spinach, it isn’t… Behold the child of sea beet

Let them eat cake

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Buenos Aires Herald On Sunday supplement Food and Wine On a purely observational basis as an outsider, it’s pretty clear that Argentines have a sweet tooth, or is that sweet teeth? Some days it seems… Let them eat cake

Ears of gold

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Buenos Aires Herald On Sunday supplement Food and Wine If you read the modern food press, you couldn’t be faulted for coming away with the impression that corn is the root of all evil. Movies… Ears of gold