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Coda Bakery – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 06:01:52 +0000

JP, my former boss at Intel used to pride himself on consistently working “half days.” If you’re thinking you’d like a job where you work only four hours a day, you’ve misinterpreted his definition of “half days.” To him, half days is a literal term meaning twelve hours a day. When most of us are done for after only nine or ten hours, he was just starting what he called his “second shift.” Very few of us have the stamina, initiative and especially the passion for what we do to work “half days.” I know restaurateurs for whom half days (or longer) are standard six or seven days a week. Because they spend so much time in their restaurants tending…

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Sammys Cafe & Deli – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 06:02:04 +0000

Most foodies have pondered the expession “Never trust a skinny chef.” Maybe you’ve even mused if there’s any truth to it. Your line of thinking probably goes something like this: “If a chef’s cooking is any good at all, how can that chef possibly resist stuffing himself (or herself)?” With this train of thought, every chef should look like Paul Prudhomme, the brilliant Creole-Louisiana Cajun chef who once weighed more than 500 pounds. Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, who’s not shy about expressing his opinion, called the notion that you shouldn’t trust a skinny chef “BS.” To the contrary, the volatile Ramsay believes “In order to be consistently excellent, a chef must “stay fit.” As my friend Bill Resnik and I…

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Pine State Biscuits – Reno, Nevada

Gil Garduno — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 06:01:50 +0000

In 2020, Ted Lasso burst onto the pop culture scene. Not long thereafter my friend Alonna Smith, the brilliant owner of My Indian Stove practically begged me to watch it. She realized that with my penchant for British comedies, I’d love the laugh-out-loud show about an American soccer coach who assumes the help at a Premiere League soccer team in the United Kingdom despite not knowing anything about soccer. Lasso is the master of the one-liner as well as the bringer of balm during heart-warming scenes. He’s warm and fuzzy…and as usual, Alanna steered me in the right direction. On the second episode of season one, Ted began the practice of bringing freshly baked biscuits to the football club’s owner…

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