From Tango, an Argentine Love Story By Camille Cusumano It’s a Friday night in late September when I decide to go to the milonga at Salon Canning. Every time I sit down after dancing, I feel something like a loving jolt, so intense is the tap on the back I keep getting from a woman […]
How not to reek of the stinking rose
February 26, 2009 by
I will not give up eating garlic, not even for tango dancing. I will modify my habitual need. If I know I’m dancing within the next 12 hours, I would avoid garlic in its raw form. Cooked garlic seems to run through the system more inconspicuously and more quickly. The best way to rid your […]
Eating Argentina
February 26, 2009 by
First law of tango-thermodynamics:
A tango dancer has to carry her weight.
• How to eat garlic and not reek
• Maple Walnut Pancakes (recipe, below)
• Fagioli Toscana (recipe, below)
I love the food here in Argentina. It doesn’t reflect the abundance and diversity of the food in my home, San Francisco Bay Area, but no other place does. Still, fresh ingredients are plentiful, the wine is getting better all the time (and still cheap). You can compose your own fresh salad in most restaurants from a long list of ingredients that usually include radichetta (a chicory), arugula (rucula), romaine, tomatoes, sugar beets (remolacha), grated carrots (zanahoria), peas (arveja), corn (choclo), and more. Naturally, there is a huge Spanish influence, but also the food culture is very Italian.
Scenes from Tango, an Argentine Love Story
February 20, 2009 by
Here’s Pato, aka Patricia Jacovella, best guide, Spanish teacher, girlfriend, and host of LivingYourSpanish.com. I shot Pato around San Antonio de Areco, her home. It’s Gaucho Central – oh, those three young gauchos loved posing for us.
Embarrassing Tango Moments
February 20, 2009 by
the two of us were living, both passionate about this Argentine dance often called “a vertical position for horizontal desire.” He had eyes set deeply, like currants in a scone, but also thick chestnut hair and a seductive close embrace and torso sway. I loved to watch his bum as he danced.
Tango, my patriotic duty
February 20, 2009 by
When President Barack Obama called our nation to a day of service, I looked no farther than my two arms and feet. I would bring tango, the dance of love, to elderly residents at the Redwoods, a senior community in Mill Valley, just north of San Francisco.
Why Argentines aren’t so hot on Valentine’s Day
February 20, 2009 by
Buenos Aires, the birthplace of the most sensual dance on earth . . . you would expect Valentine’s Day to offer a major opportunity for commercial exploitation of eros.
Recoleta Apartment for rent in Buenos Aires
February 20, 2009 by
I lived and worked as a writer here for more than a year, through all four seasons – and I can vouch that the place, though not fancy, has “mucha buen onda” – lotsa good vibes.
Chapter 18. Tango Rapture
February 20, 2009 by
An excerpt from Tango, an Argentine Love Story “The stillness shall be the dancing and the darkness the light.” -“East Coker,” T. S. Elliott ” . . . Happy is what I feel as I cross town in a taxi with my five suitcases in tow. I love that it’s summer in January here, and […]
Shape Magazine calls Tango “moving memoir”
January 14, 2009 by
Shape Magazine calls Tango “moving memoir”