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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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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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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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