Put a ring on it
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…
Behind the Eight-Ball
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…
The glory of Cicero
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 painted fish
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…
Behold the child of sea beet
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…
Let them eat cake
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…
Ears of gold
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…
A swamp cabbage by any other name
Buenos Aires Herald On Sunday supplement Food and Wine Slender cylinders of gleaming ivory, firm on the outside, tender, moist and creamy on the inside. Sounds like perfection in a vegetable, and for some, the…