Morning Coffee – Thursday, February 26 from 10.30 until noon

Posted on February 1, 2015 by tq

Come and join us for a new
Morning Coffee!
[Wendy morning coffee]
Let’s enjoy excellent coffee, lots of goodies, and great conversation. We’ll meet with our old friends and make new ones.

Location: Chriss Galeotti’s home in Puerto Madero (You will receive the address after you send your RSVP.)
Date and Time: Thursday, February 26 from 10.30 until noon.
Please RSVP to: Chriss Galeotti christinegaleotti@yahoo.com

**The Morning Coffee is held in a member’s private home. Please extend your host the courtesy of an RSVP, and if it turns out that you can’t come, inform your host of that fact in advance of the event.

**This event is limited to current BAIN Downtown members and their personal guests. If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contact bain.downtown@gmail.com

February Book Group — Tuesday, February 10

Posted on January 26, 2015 by tq

Meeting Details:
Book: Fury by Salman Rushdie

Date: Tuesday, February 10th
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Café In Boca al Lupo, Bonpland 1965 – Palermo (click here for map)
RSVP: jendan@gmail.com

Our Book Club will meet next on Tuesday, February 10th. Bring suggestions of future books you would recommend for discussion.

Come enjoy your afternoon coffee with us, and participate in a lively discussion with other BAIN members (feel free to join us even if you don’t manage to read this month’s book–it’s totally fine).

Please RSVP so we know how many to expect!

February 10: Fury (2001) by Salman Rushdie

“Life is fury. Fury-sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from bloody limb.”

Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees London for New York. There’s a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of America’s wealth and power, seeking to “erase” himself. Eat me, America, he prays, and give me peace.

But fury is all around him. Cabdrivers spout invective. A serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete. The petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. His own thoughts, emotions, and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. A tall, green-eyed young blonde in a D’Angelo Voodoo baseball cap is in store for him. As is another woman, with whom he will fall in love and be drawn toward a different fury, whose roots lie on the far side of the world.

March 10: The Underground Girls of Kabul (2014) by Jenny Nordberg

In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as “dressed up like a boy”) is a third kind of child – a girl temporarily raised as a boy and presented as such to the outside world. Jenny Nordberg, the reporter who broke the story of this phenomenon for the New York Times, constructs a powerful and moving account of those secretly living on the other side of a deeply segregated society where women have almost no rights and little freedom.

**If anyone happens to have hard copies of any of the books, or is traveling and is willing to bring back copies for other members, please let us know either by email or at the next meeting**

If you have any questions about the titles or meetings of the Book Club, please contact me at jendan@gmail.com

See you in February!

Social Meeting – Friday, January 30 at 6 p.m.

Posted on January 10, 2015 by tq

BAIN Downtown members are invited to join in this month’s social get-together. This popular meeting will be held at La Terrasse, in the lovely Plaza Hotel.

The event will start at 6 p.m. BAIN will provide appetizers, and there will be two for one drink specials.

Location: La Terrasse, in the Plaza Hotel, Florida 1005 (Retiro, in the city center) across from Plaza San Martín. La Terrasse is on the first floor, which happens to be up two floors from the lobby. You can find it by going into the Fitness Center. Should you need further assistance, the staff are very helpful.

Date and Time: Friday, January 30 at 6 p.m.

Program: Conversation! Meet someone new! Bring friends and introduce them to BAIN. We will provide light appetizers and finger food while you enjoy the two for one beverage specials.

Fees: BAIN Downtown members – no charge. Guests and BAIN Suburbs members – 50 pesos*
*If you join BAIN Downtown at the meeting, your guest fee is waived. The fee to join BAIN for about one year’s membership is 250 pesos.

Luncheon – Wednesday, January 21 at 1 p.m.

Posted on January 10, 2015 by tq

With the hot weather upon us traditional wisdom says you should have something hot to cool you down? I know this works for liquids but I am not sure if spicy food might do the same. Well, here is our opportunity to experiment. All of the dishes can be order without spice if you desire.

We dine in January at what I consider to be the best Indian restaurant in the city – Tandoor.

I think that TripAdvisor sums it up nicely: “Exquisite food” Reviewed November 13, 2014. “Very elegant Indian restaurant.”

We will have an extensive menu to choose from, there is something here to satisfy any palate. You can choose from the following:

Vegetarian

Masoor Dal con Tadka
Lentils with onions, tomatoes and lemon, cooked in a sauce with Indian spices

Navratan Lorma
Creamy vegetarian curry from Northern India

Paneer Tikka Masala
Curry with homemade Indian cheese, in a sauce of tomatoes (or spinach), onions and spices

Chicken

Chicken Shah Jahani
Chicken cooked in a rich curry of cream, nuts and mild spices

Chicken Tikka Masala**
The classic Tandoori curry dish cooked in a sauce of tomatoes, onions and spices

Chicken Pistachio “Korma” from Agra*
A rich, exquisite and aromatic North Indian chicken curry with ground pistachios

Salmon, Prawns or Lamb

Salmon or Prawns al Yogur de Bengal
Curry with a base of yoghurt tomatoes and spices

Salmon or Prawns de la costa Malaabar
Curry with a base of coconut milk and tamarind with spices

“Ismaili” Lamb Curry from Bombay*
A unique, aromatic and delicious family dish from the “Ismaili” community, made with roasted nuts & spices

Lamb Aatu Kari Kolambu de Ooty
Lamb cooked in its juices with 19 different spices and ingredients

Accompaniments

White rice or Naan with garlic or butter

Beverages

Choice of: soft drink / Indian lemonade / glass of wine (red or white)
Pitchers of tap water will be on the table

Desserts

Badam Pista-Kulfi
Rich ice-cream prepared with almonds and pistachios

Gojar Ka Halwa
Creamy dessert of carrots and nuts

Total cost for the meal including tip will be 150 pesos.

The following public transport options will get you close to the venue:
Subway: Line D, Aguero station
Buses: líneas 152, 109, 111, 39, 12

Date: Wednesday, January 21
Time: 1:00 pm
Place: Tandoor, Laprida 1293, Barrio Norte esq. Charcas, Phone 4821-3676
Cost: 150 pesos (includes tip)

Please RSVP to me to secure a place. Do not reply to this e-mail as it will go to BAIN, but rather send the reply to my address below.
mweldon213@yahoo.com
Phone: 4815-4660

Ladies Night Out — Thursday, January 15

Posted on January 9, 2015 by tq

BAIN’s Ladies Night Out will start the New Year with a sunset Happy Hour at the Central Market in Puerto Madero (across from the Hotel Hilton) starting at 19:00 hs on Thursday, January 15th. Please plan to join us if you are in BA! The sunsets are glorious.

On Thursdays the Central Market offers drinks + appetizers + DJ + sunset with 10% discount.

Address: Dique 4 / Macacha Guemes 300.

Ladies, mark your calendars now and RSVP to Marcia Williamson / marcia@transpack.com.ar

(Silvia, who usually coordinates this event is enjoying the beach in Ecuador – we will toast to her in her absence)

Cheers to all!

Morning Coffee — January 22

Posted on January 1, 2015 by tq

Come and join us for a Morning Coffee!

Let’s enjoy excellent coffee, lots of goodies, and great conversation. We’ll meet with our old friends and make new ones. BAIN members and their invited guests are welcome.

Location: Jolanda’s home in Puerto Madero (You will receive the address after you send your RSVP.)

Date and Time: Thursday , January 22 from 10.30 until noon.

Please RSVP to: Jolanda Maltha <jmaltha@hotmail.com>

Book Group — Tuesday, January 13

Posted on December 20, 2014 by tq

Meeting Details:
Book: The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Café In Boca al Lupo, Bonpland 1965 – Palermo (click here for map)
RSVP: tonilin@aol.com (Toni)

Our Book Club will meet next on Tuesday, January 13

Come enjoy your afternoon coffee with us, and participate in a lively discussion with other BAIN members (feel free to join us even if you don’t manage to read this month’s book–it’s totally fine).

Please RSVP so we know how many to expect!

Please feel free to join us even if you don’t manage to read the book.

January 13: The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Jorges Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy’s novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.

February 10: Fury (2001) by Salman Rushdie

“Life is fury. Fury-sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from bloody limb.”

Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees London for New York. There’s a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of America’s wealth and power, seeking to “erase” himself. Eat me, America, he prays, and give me peace.

But fury is all around him. Cabdrivers spout invective. A serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete. The petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. His own thoughts, emotions, and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. A tall, green-eyed young blonde in a D’Angelo Voodoo baseball cap is in store for him. As is another woman, with whom he will fall in love and be drawn toward a different fury, whose roots lie on the far side of the world.

March 10: The Underground Girls of Kabul (2014) by Jenny Nordberg

In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as “dressed up like a boy”) is a third kind of child – a girl temporarily raised as a boy and presented as such to the outside world. Jenny Nordberg, the reporter who broke the story of this phenomenon for the New York Times, constructs a powerful and moving account of those secretly living on the other side of a deeply segregated society where women have almost no rights and little freedom.

**If anyone happens to have hard copies of any of the books, or is traveling and is willing to bring back copies for other members, please let us know either by email or at the next meeting**

If you have any questions about the titles or meetings of the Book Club, please contact me at tonilin@aol.com

See you in January!

Luncheon — December 18

Posted on December 8, 2014 by tq

Closed for over ten months, 36 Billares reopened on September 24, 2014 after a huge renovation and restoration work. This is our destination for the BAIN December luncheon!

Date: Thursday, December 18

Time: 12:30 pm

Place: Los 36 Billares, Av. De Mayo 1271, phone 4381-5696

Cost: 100 pesos (includes tip)

Please RSVP to mweldon213@yahoo.com to secure a place. Do not reply to this e-mail as it will go to BAIN, but rather send the reply to my address.

We will order from the following menu which includes both water and wine.

MAIN COURSE CHOICES

– Pastas : Tallarines, Fettuccinis, Fuccilli or Noquis

Select a salsa: fileto, pesto, a la crema, a la manteca or al aceite

– Wok de pollo with vegetables and sesame

– Hamburguesa

– ¼ de pollo al horno

DESSERT CHOICES

Flan de huevo or coffee

Total cost for the meal including tip will be 100 pesos.

Social Meeting – Friday, December 12 at 6.00 p.m.

Posted on November 25, 2014 by tq

BAIN Downtown members and their guests are invited to join in December’s Social get-together.

Location: Melía Recoleta Plaza Boutique Hotel, Posadas 1557, Recoleta. (Go from the front entrance to the rear of the hotel, and up the stairs.)

Date and Time: Friday, December 12 at 6.00 p.m.

Program: Conversation! Meet someone new! Bring friends and introduce them to BAIN! We will provide light appetizers and finger food, while you enjoy the two for beverage specials.

Fees: BAIN Downtown members – no charge
Guests and BAIN Suburbs members – AR$50*

*If you join BAIN Downtown at the meeting, your guest fee is waived. The fee to join BAIN for a one year membership is AR$250.

December Book Group — Tuesday, December 9

Posted on November 19, 2014 by tq

Meeting Details:
Book: The Human Stain (2000) by Philip Roth (read to the end of the message to see books selected for the first 3 months of 2015)

Date: Tuesday, December 9th
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Café In Boca al Lupo, Bonpland 1965 – Palermo (click here for map)
RSVP: loucrie@yahoo.com (Julia)

Our Book Club will meet next on Tuesday, December 9th.

Come enjoy your afternoon coffee with us, and participate in a lively discussion with other BAIN members (feel free to join us even if you don’t manage to read this month’s book–it’s totally fine).

Please RSVP so we know how many to expect!

**I will call ahead to reserve the seating area on the top floor for us (by the bathrooms) so we don’t have to sit outside in the heat or next to the noisy fan.**

Amazon description of The Human Stain (2000) by Philip Roth.

It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret. But it’s not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with Faunia Farley, a woman half his age with a savagely wrecked past–a part-time farmhand and a janitor at the college where, until recently, he was the powerful dean of faculty. And it’s not the secret of Coleman’s alleged racism, which provoked the college witch-hunt that cost him his job and, to his mind, killed his wife. Nor is it the secret of misogyny, despite the best efforts of his ambitious young colleague, Professor Delphine Roux, to expose him as a fiend. Coleman’s secret has been kept for fifty years: from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman, who sets out to understand how this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, had fabricated his identity and how that cannily controlled life came unraveled. Set in 1990s America, where conflicting moralities and ideological divisions are made manifest through public denunciation and rituals of purification, The Human Stain concludes Philip Roth’s eloquent trilogy of postwar American lives that are as tragically determined by the nation’s fate as by the “human stain” that so ineradicably marks human nature. This harrowing, deeply compassionate, and completely absorbing novel is a magnificent successor to his Vietnam-era novel, American Pastoral, and his McCarthy-era novel, I Married a Communist

The book, as always, is available electronically. (Click on title above for the kindle version on Amazon).

Please feel free to join us even if you don’t manage to read the book.

Upcoming books:

Thanks for your response to the online book survey! Here are our next books according to the voting:

January 13: The Invention of Morel () by Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Jorges Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy’s novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.

February 10: Fury (2001) by Salman Rushdie

“Life is fury. Fury-sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from bloody limb.”

Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees London for New York. There’s a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of America’s wealth and power, seeking to “erase” himself. Eat me, America, he prays, and give me peace.

But fury is all around him. Cabdrivers spout invective. A serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete. The petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. His own thoughts, emotions, and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. A tall, green-eyed young blonde in a D’Angelo Voodoo baseball cap is in store for him. As is another woman, with whom he will fall in love and be drawn toward a different fury, whose roots lie on the far side of the world.

March 10:The Underground Girls of Kabul (2014) by Jenny Nordberg

In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as “dressed up like a boy”) is a third kind of child – a girl temporarily raised as a boy and presented as such to the outside world. Jenny Nordberg, the reporter who broke the story of this phenomenon for the New York Times, constructs a powerful and moving account of those secretly living on the other side of a deeply segregated society where women have almost no rights and little freedom.

**If anyone happens to have hard copies of any of the books, or is traveling and is willing to bring back copies for other members, please let us know either by email or at the next meeting**