Sunday, September 23, 2012
Fancy Food Trucks, not for me.
Durante décadas los camiones de comida ambulante sirvieron como avituallamiento para obreros de la construccion o de fabricas que no llevaban su comida hecha por una diligente ama de casa. Eran lugares baratos donde adquirir un bocadillo o una hamburguesa rapida y volver al trabajo.
Pero ahora los modelnnos que dirian los geniales Martes y Trece, tienen una nueva moda, el food truck con comida elaborada, algo asi como una mezcla de Ferran Adria y Sancho Gracia en la misma persona. Por un precio no demasiado económico, en vez del bocadillo o hamburguesa cutre, los modelnnos pueden disponer de una gran variedad de comidas.
Incluso el canal de television Food Network dedica un programa especial, estilo reality para ver quien gana uno de estos camiones. Los concursantes superan diversas pruebas y el que menos recaude en cada fin de semana, es eliminado.
Nada mas lejos de mi que criticar el espíritu empresarial de algunos chefs. Tampoco critico la bohemia o la rebeldía controlada de los outsiders de la cocina. Ni siquiera critico a los guays que se apuntan a todas las modas. Siempre los ha habido y siempre los habrá.
Lo que si tengo claro, especialmente en un verano tejano, que no voy a pagar diez dolares por comer en la calle con cubiertos de plastico y servido en un carton (dejo las disquisiciones ecologicas para quien quiera). Para eso por el mismo precio e incluyendo la propina, puedo tener una magnifica hamburguesa o sandwich en Chili's. Sin olvidar el aire acondicionado, que en EEUU es necesario si vives de Fargo para abajo.
Personalmente creo que los food trucks son una moda pasajera. Al final solo quedaran los de siempre: los que sirven a los empleados de la construcción por un módico precio.
¿Buscando casa en Houston?
Claro que hay que tener en cuenta que el area metropolitana de Houston es bastante extensa y que por tanto si uno es nuevo en la ciudad tiene que que comprobar cuanto tiempo le va a costar ir al trabajo.
Y por supuesto, tambien comprobar que el barrio sea tranquilo. Algunos apartamentos son muy baratos, pero son sitios bastante marginales.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Por fin una semana de vacaciones
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Friday, December 04, 2009
Nevada en Houston
Vaya con los del Climagate... que vengan una temporada al Golfo a predecir huracanes con la bola de cristal.
Monday, September 14, 2009
If you like English
Let's face it -- English is a crazy language!
There's no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? One index, two indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through the annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love?
Have you ever run into someone who was discombobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all).
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it!
(This essay has been attributed to Richard Lederer.)
Pluralities
by Eugenie A. Nida
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.
Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese;
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
Cows in the plural may be cows or kine,
But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.
And I speak of a foot and you show me your feet,
But I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
If the singular is this and the plural is these,
Should the plural of kiss be nicknamed kese?
Then one may be that and three may be those,
Yet the plural of hat will never be hose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But we say mother, we never say methren.
The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim.
So our English, I think you all will agree,
Is the trickiest language you ever did see.
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Lo que mas me gusta del ingles es que es un a lengua llena de creatividad.
Monday, July 06, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Para Mantenerse joven.
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Consejos de Seguridad
Informacion util. Pasadlo a todas vuestras amigas. En mi trabajo esta una mujer que fue policia y ella misma nos envio estos consejos en ingles. Suerte verlos traducidos. :
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