Buenos Aires Herald - On Sunday

Image and reality in traditional English kitchen

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:06:58 -0300

By Dereck Foster
For the Herald

Words and acts can, far too frequently, fail to agree when set up for comparison. Never more so in matters gastronomic, and in gastronomy, never more so than when the eternal question of what is true English cuisine arises. Leaving aside the snide (fre

The best of both worlds

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:59:57 -0300

By Dereck Foster
for te Herald

Nobody can deny that the most symbolic and typical feature of our local restaurant scene is the profusion of parrillas to be found on almost every street and avenue in our city. To most locals - and an increasing number of foreign visitors - parrilla i

âPink Panthersâ gang boosting Balkan pride

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:15:24 -0300

By Jeffrey Fleishman
Los Angeles Times

So let's get this straight. A guy in the raspberry business from western Serbia smashes and grabs his way through a heist eight time zones away in Tokyo and scoots off with a US$31-million necklace known as the Countess of Vendôme. It happ

David Byrne makes music with London building

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:18:37 -0300

David Byrne doesn't want to rock the building, but it may shake a little.

The ex-Talking Heads frontman has turned London's Roundhouse, a former railway engine shed, into a giant musical instrument for the installation Playing the Building.
The work invites visitors to make the brick

There is ice in my wine

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:35:14 -0300

By Dereck Foster
For the Herald

The term cryoextraction is not one with which any normal wine lover is familiar. It is even something rather unusual and mostly misunderstood amongst many experts and winemakers, especially those whose contact with wine making in very cold climates i

Afghanistan, debate and decide

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:42:43 -0300

By Karl W. Eikenberry*
Special to The Washington Post

In the run-up to Afghanistan's presidential and provincial council elections on Aug. 20, Afghan and international political elites and journalists will pass judgment on the past five years. But only the Afghan peo

Then and now; where is the change?

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:16:31 -0300

By Dereck Foster
For the Herald

Keeping up with the rest of the world is not an easy task, more so when one still has to try to catch up with ones own small portion of the universe. With travel becoming ever easier with the passing of time and the insatiable hunger induced by the nee

Vucetich, century of Argentine fingerprinting

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:17:49 -0300

By Eric Stener Carlson
For the Herald

Argentina has made recent moves to overcome its long history of human rights abuses. The once-feared ESMA naval engineering academy now houses a human rights centre. Cases against kidnapping of children have been reopened, and Argentina is a memb

Is fishy business good business?

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:25:08 -0300

By Dereck Foster
For the Herald

Readers may have noticed that over the past year or so, the subject of fish, fish restaurants and fish dishes has become increasingly evident in this column. I myself have only really come to realize this fact fairly recently, and a twinge or two of re

The endangered pursuit of reading

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:13:15 -0300

By David L. Ulin
Los Angeles Times

Sometime late last year - I don't remember when, exactly - I noticed I was having trouble sitting down to read. That's a problem if you do what I do, but it's an even bigger problem if you're the kind of person I am. Since I discovered reading, I've

Buenos Aires Herald - On Sunday

Image and reality in traditional English kitchen

The best of both worlds

âPink Panthersâ gang boosting Balkan pride

David Byrne makes music with London building

There is ice in my wine

Afghanistan, debate and decide

Then and now; where is the change?

Vucetich, century of Argentine fingerprinting

Is fishy business good business?

The endangered pursuit of reading

âPink Panthersâ gang boosting Balkan pride