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K’Lynn’s Cuisine – Rio Rancho, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:29:05 +0000

Before permanent signage was mounted, a tethered banner in front of K’Lynn’s Southern & Cajun Fusion in Rio Rancho listed a few of the delicious treasures available in the tiny restaurant: “catfish, BBQ, gumbo, po boys, jerk chicken, carne adovada fries & more!” Yeah, we did a double-take, too. One of those items just seemed a bit out-of-place? If you’re thinking “carne adovada fries” don’t belong on the list because they’re not Soul food, you’d be wrong. Carne adovada fries definitely belong on the list. So does jerk chicken which, by most conventional definitions, isn’t soul food either. The one item we thought to be out-of-place was “& more.” I mean what more could you possibly want listed on the…

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Nexus Brewery – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 08:47:12 +0000

Set in Albuquerque, Breaking Bad, AMC’s critically acclaimed television series may have left viewers with the impression that the Duke City is a haven for meth cookery and fried chicken joints. Had the fair city been more accurately typecast, it would have have been portrayed as a mecca for microbreweries. The Albuquerque Beer Scene blog says it best: “It’s like Portland, but with sun,” a comparison which shows just how much the city’s microbrewery and brewpub scene has grown–and not just in terms of sheer numbers. Duke City breweries have accorded themselves so well at the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup that the city may soon be re-christened “Albeerquerque.” When the New Mexico Tourism Department launched the…

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Bama’s 1865 – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)

Gil Garduno — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 06:01:59 +0000

When we tell people we lived in Mississippi for eight years their typical reaction is something akin to “OMG, that must have been terrible.” Lumping Alabama and Louisiana into their diatribes, they typically perceive we lived in a poorly educated, mostly rural and unabashedly racist region. It surprises them to learn that New Mexico ranks below those three states among the least educated states in the country (only West Virgina ranked lower). We lived in Ocean Springs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, an almost contiguous metropolitan area from New Orleans to Mobile. It’s as modern as you can get. In terms of racism, the Deep South has made significant strides and isn’t as racist as the Boston area was…

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