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Casa SaltShaker

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chef: Dan Perlman
Host: Henry Tapia

From Hemispheres (United Airlines)
Global Gourmet
May 2007

Buenos Aires' Secret Suppers
by Paula de la Cruz

[Excerpted]

When Dan Perlman opens the door to his Recoleta apartment, you’ll feel like you’ve arrived at an old friend’s house for dinner. The expat New York chef constructs multicourse meals according to never-repeating themes each Friday and Saturday evening for 12 guests. For a “Techniques of Preservation: A Tribute to Dr. James Bedford” dinner (Bedford was the first person cryogenically frozen in 1967), highlights were a pickled fennel, veal, and sweetbread roulade with a peach rum sauce and a London broil served with watermelon pickles. One of the guests was an Argentinean polo player who’d just retired from playing in Brunei and was now opening her own closed-door restaurant in Buenos Aires. After your visit, you can learn the tricks of Perlman’s trade by visiting his online diary, where he posts his recipes and reflections on food history.

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