SaltShaker Information

Ask yourself this: Which is more important to you? Who is on the bus with you or where the bus is going? Now, my answer to that question was and is who. And that got to apply to some new fun changes in my life. As of July 2005, I set out, for an indeterminate amount of time, traveling. I was going to say that I was now an itinerant traveler and went and looked up the definition to make sure Id got it right. Turns out that thats redundant itinerant means either as a noun someone who travels from place to place, or as an adjective, the same. So, I was merely an itinerant (though, for the moment, as youll see, Ive stopped in one place once again). E-mail, instant messaging, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, have become the methods of communication with my friends and family back in the States. So, these days, I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the who, my husband, Henry Tapia. We have a lovely little duplex apartment in the Recoleta neighborhood, with two patios and a garden. I run what here is called a restaurant a puertas cerradas, or closed door restaurant, called Casa SaltShaker , but prefer to think of it like the dinner parties I used to run in New York, the Second Sunday Supper Circle . The motto is Food. Wine. Conversation. New Friends. and several times every week I bring together people from all over the world, from diverse backgrounds, of different ages, to eat, drink, converse, and, hopefully, make amigos, over the dinner table. Henry helps me out in the restaurant most nights, but his primary passion and career is teaching tango and folklore dance. Im not going to get into a detailed bio and work history, suffice it to say, Im a trained chef (originally via apprenticing, later through Peter Kumps Cooking School, now the Institute of Culinary Education), a trained pastry chef and baker (Roberto Gonis Escuela de Pasteleros), and a certified Advanced Sommelier (Court of Master Sommeliers), and have a Higher Certificate from the Institute of Masters of Wine. Ive worked in both award winning and unnoticed ...