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Ramona’s Mexican Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:01:50 +0000

“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.” ~Laurie Colwin, Novelist Watch virtually any episode of Kitchen Nightmares and you might just be convinced that families can’t possibly work together in a restaurant. Kitchen Nightmares, one of Gordon Ramsay’s eight-hundred or so television shows, is rather formulaic–Ramsay spends a week with a failing restaurant in an attempt to revive the business. Almost invariably, the failing restaurant is owned and operated by a family. Almost invariably, the drama falls just short of Homer strangling Bart. Arguments on Kitchen Nightmares are loud and intense. Copious…

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Hello Deli – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 06:01:25 +0000

HELLO DELI (to the tune of Hello Dolly) “Hello Deli, this is Joe, Deli would you please send up a nice corned beef on rye. A box of RITZ, Deli and some Schlitz, Deli Some chopped liver and a sliver of your, apple pie. Turkey Legs, Deli hard boiled eggs, Deli and a plate of those potatoes you french fry, oh Don’t be late, Deli I just can’t wait Deli, Deli without breakfast, I’d just die.” ~ Frank Jacobs (Writer for MAD Magazine) In 2016, BBC Travel lamented the imminent demise of the New York City deli. “Not the corner markets or bodegas that appear on nearly every New York block,” but “the true New York City delicatessen: the brick and…

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Brekki Brekki – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 06:01:14 +0000

Brekki Brekki–To those of us who were around in the mid 70s, those two words might dredge up recollections of the citizens band (CB) radio vernacular. Maybe even the Chuck Norris movie “Breaker! Breaker!” with its perfunctory butt-kicking. Though I pride myself on having a sesquipedalian vocabulary, I had never heard the term “brekki” used as slang for breakfast” until watching the Irish television series “Jack Taylor.” My research revealed “brekki” is not an Irish term for breakfast, but is in Iceland. Yes, Iceland. Jack Taylor’s backstory didn’t involve a stint in Iceland. So, where did the Irish detective pick up the term. Closer to home, why would a Duke City restaurant specializing in breakfast name itself “Brekki Brekki?” Paula,…

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