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© 2006 Dan Perlman
Casa SaltShaker
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chef: Dan Perlman
Host: Henry Tapia
November 10-11, 2006
This weekend was the Mārtiņi Festival in Latvia - a traditional festival that celebrates the move from the fall to winter god (Martins), the end of all that pesky salting and preserving of food, and the advent of fun activities like skiing, sledding, masquerades, hanging crosses on the door, and rooster killing. It has nothing to do with the Martini cocktail. It also had only tangential relation to our Casa S dinner… no, that’s not true - I used the flavors and combinations of traditional dishes as inspiration for some of my own.
From some of the night's guests:
"Thanks again for everything on Saturday! We very much enjoyed dinner (M... was especially fond of the pasta; I think my two favorites were the soup and the fish) and we did end up hitting it off with the pareja to the point that we went back to their apartment for a drink and then went to our first gay bar in Buenos Aires. It was fun." - N.L.
