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Birrieria Y Tacos Alex Tijuana Style – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Thu, 16 May 2024 05:01:00 +0000

If you’ve noticed an increase in the number of recent visits on this blog to Mexican restaurants, credit much of that to Pati Jinich, ebullient host of the James Beard Award-winning and Emmy nominated PBS series Pati’s Mexican Table Although we record the Saturday airing of Pati’s Mexican Table, we don’t usually watch it until Sunday…right before lunchtime. It’s no wonder, therefore, that what we’ve been craving for lunch is Mexican food. It’s nigh impossible not to be utterly charmed (if not outright besotted) by the lovely Pati Jinich. Her huge likeability quotient is the byproduct of a genuine warmth and self-effacing humor which come across with her every thickly-accented utterance. She’s down-to-Earth and genuine, taking absolute joy in …

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El Chile Toreado – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Fri, 03 May 2024 06:01:14 +0000

Until 2008, the notion of gourmet culinary offerings being proffered by a mobile conveyance was unheard of. Prior to then, food trucks were (often rightfully so) known as “roach coaches” or even worse “barf buggies.” Roach coaches were an eyesore, a medium of last resort usually parked at construction sites, manufacturing plants, public parks or basic military training bases where captive trainees had no alternative. Roach coaches were a pure convenience with no pretense to gourmet (or even good) cuisine. Most of them hawked simple fare such as hot dogs and tacos as well as potato chips, cigarettes, candy and chewing gum. During the era of “convenience stores on wheels,” food trucks weren’t worried about building a brand. Nor were…

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Tio’s Kitchen – Bernalillo, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 06:01:23 +0000

I may not have much respect for the national media or for politicians, but I sure do respect the elderly (unless they’re members of the media or politicians). My parents engendered among their six children, respect for our elders. None of us would ever consider addressing an elder by their first name. We would never use the pronoun “tu” (you) when speaking with someone older than us. We always use “usted,” also a Spanish term for “you,” but used in a formal manner for people we respect and always for our elders. We were raised with the type of respect for seniors that is practiced in India, Thailand, Somalia, Indonesia and other nations who venerate their elderly. Being raised…

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