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Red and Green: New Mexico’s Culinary Scene is on Fire: November, 2024

Gil Garduno — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:30:24 +0000

ALBUQUERQUE VEGAN RESTAURANT AMONG AMERICA’S TOP 100: In its compilation of the Top 100 Vegan Restaurants in the US for 2024, Yelp elaborated: “Once a niche cuisine, plant-based food—free of animal ingredients—is now a top dining trend, as more consumers choose diets for a healthier body and planet.” Everyman philosopher Homer Simpson continues to resist that trend, preferring pork-based products to health: “I’d be vegetarian if bacon grew on trees.” One point Yelp didn’t make is that vegan and vegetarian restaurants are serving food that’s absolutely delicious–whether it’s Mediterranean, Mexican or Moroccan. As Albuquerque’s Vegos Vegan New Mexican has proven, even New Mexican cuisine can be made deliciously vegan style. Vegos ranked 66th in Yelp’s compilation. TALKING ABOUT TACOS: Tacos aren’t…

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Red or Green–New Mexico’s Food Scene Was on Fire in 2023

Gil Garduno — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 06:03:24 +0000

2023: The Year In Review T’was the year that was, a banner year for Gil’s Thrilling (And Filling) Blog with more milestones having been achieved. Most significantly to your friendly neighborhood restaurant review blogger was the continued dialogue–your sharing of comments noting contentment, humor, news or displeasure with me or some other food topic. There are now 13,869 comments on 1,370 reviews, an increase of 619 comments and 59 new reviews over 2022. My edacious publicist Bob of the Village of Los Ranchos (BOTVOLR) retains the lifetime commenter achievement award with well over 1200 comments over the life of the blog. In 2023, however, he was supplanted by the always clever and witty Lynn Garner as the year’s most prolific…

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Gil’s Best of the Best for 2023

Gil Garduno — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 06:02:00 +0000

Welcome to Gil’s Taylor Swift-free list of my favorite dishes in 2023. These dishes were selected not for complex culinary preparations and exorbitant price points, but for the simple preparation of dishes that taste as if they were prepared by a chorus of angels in a celestial kitchen. These are the dishes most indelibly imprinted on my memory engrams…the first dishes that come to mind when I close my eyes and reflect on the past year in eating. As with previous yearly compilations, every item on this list was heretofore unknown to my palate before 2023. Every dish was a delicious discovery from within New Mexico’s sacred borders. In chronological order, my “best of the best” are: January 2023 You…

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