This year’s celebration offers traditional American fare: hamburgers, hot dogs, and cold Budweiser; a sharp contrast to the usual Argentine pizza and Quilmes beer. And what is a 4th of July celebration without fireworks? Sparklers and American flags will be supplied to the attendees. With the combination of good ole’ American food and fireworks, one can’t help but feel right at home.
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These weeks have been so busy! The weather is totally erratic – one minute cool, the next rainy, the next sunny and warm.. and then cool again – it’s the perfect weather for catching a cold! That’s exactly what I did and then it’s been like a non-stop marathon trying to fit in my social and blogging life into my tough work schedule! BUT… I did manage to bake a little during the evenings. It’s probably one of those activities that keeps me sane.
I’m really fortunate to have my small group of expat girlfriends. Unfortunately, we don’t get together on a regular enough basis – ususally one of the girls will send out an email letting the others know that it’s time to catch up. She will set the date (usually a weekday so as not to disturb our heavily packed weekend social calendars) and time (since we all work, dinnertime just seems to fit perfectly). This girl then has taken on the mother of all responsibilities -cooking for her friends who show up with bottles of wine or champagne or even sometimes a little dessert for the group.
ok so first – a few things going on tonight…
Swayzak is promoting their new release, Some Other Country. You may know them from the ultra cool CD “Snowboarding in Argentina”. They’re playing tonight …
I just started getting into Mutations, a book that I bought a few weeks ago when I was in Chicago. Javier first found it in the library of the Architectural School at IIT and it was so fascinating that we ended up buying it elsewhere. It has various contributors, including modern architect Rem Koolhaas with the Harvard Project on the City, Stanford Kwitter and Saskia Sassen.
I browsed through this book for hours at first, looking at the photos and statistics and thinking about how everything in this book relates to everything I learned as an undergraduate student of Anthropology some years back.
i really really like you.
yes, my dear readers, it’s flash. give it a chance to load because this mixtape is especially for you. i made it because your eyes sparkle like diamonds from eurasia and i think you’re the bee’s knees.
i hope you like it.
A few months ago I was given the honor to make the birthday cake for Javier’s 87 year old grandmother. I browsed my various cookbooks and favorite recipe websites looking for just the right special cake until my taste bud memory reminded me of one of the most special cakes of all – the carrot cake! How could I have forgotten this great standby? Well, it seems to be missing here in Buenos Aires even though all of the ingredients are here and it’s a really easy cake to make.
But I must admit, when I said that I was going to make a carrot cake for the birthday party, everyone seemed to say the same thing, “No! Cake with carrots? That’s disgusting!” And then they tried it.
Do I actually have female readers? Well, if you exist, this is for you. In particular, this is for my friend… let’s call her “Smurfette” since she can’t reveal her true identity for fear of the Paparazzi finding her here in Buenos Aires… yeah, that’s you Smurfette.
On April 25th of this year at the Milano Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Tokujin Yoshioka revealed his Bouquet Chair as part of the Moroso Collection.
One of the major things about traveling around Tokyo is the great distances that you need to cover to get from one district to the other. At first we were quite intimidated to use the Tokyo Metro mostly because we were so used to the Buenos Aires Subte with its 5 simple lines. We had seen the maps before arriving, but perhaps just hadn’t mentally prepared ourselves for trying to figure out how we were going to get to our hotel after 32 hours of travel from Buenos Aires. And to see in front of us a Metro map of all the lines going in every which direction and not a single map in Romanji (Japanese words spelled out using English letters), well, we became the typical confused tourists.
Just in case this rainy, cool weather has you wanting to curl up on your couch and do nothing but totally “veg out” this whole weekend – I have the perfect solution for you! If you’ve got cable, Channel TCM is presenting an homage to famed cinema director, Stanley Kubrick. It would have been 80th birthday this day, so starting at 16:30 on Saturday afternoon is a series of four of his best known films and a special documentary of his life. If you already have plans to go out, it’s definitely worth recording!
So if there’s anyone who has actually been following Buenos Aires Style, you may have noticed that this past month, I’ve had no new articles – this is not because I totally dropped off the face of the planet – I just dropped off of this SIDE of the planet – and ended up exactly on the other side – in Tokyo, Japan. So the next few articles will be some special editions of “Buenos Aires Style – in Tokyo”. Hope you enjoy!
We arrived on June 17 at the Narita Airport, had our fingerprints taken and upon arrival to the baggage claim, realized that my luggage that was supposed to go from Buenos Aires to Chicago to Tokyo took a detour to Dallas from Chicago and would not be arriving for two more days.
