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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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Sergio’s Bakery & Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 06:01:30 +0000

In Italy, the oft-used idiom “Senza il pane tutto diventa orfano” translates to “without bread everyone is an orphan.” That’s how important bread is in Italian culture. Is it any wonder bread consumption in Italy is higher than in any other European country, even France. Many loaves are made by artisan bakers operating out of family-owned and operated bakeries. Most work on a small scale and are heavily influenced by family recipes and regional traditions. Those secrets and techniques have been handed down from baker-to-baker over the years. Family is essential to retaining the continuity of bread-making excellence in Italy. Whether baking bread for home or operating a panetteria and (or) a panificio, traditions are passed on from one generation…

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Horizon Bagels & Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:39:54 +0000

The furthest thing you can see when you stare out into the sky––the line where the sky meets the earth––is called the horizon. Now, contemplate the faraway rainbow when it appears on the horizon. The rainbow is one of the most inspiring displays in nature–the spectacular, high-arching display of colors that stretches across the horizon at the tail end of a rainstorm. This prototypical display of the colors of the ultraviolet spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet) is brought on by sunlight refracting, reflecting, and dispersing as it passes through raindrops. It’s magical! No wonder fortune –a pot of gold–and good luck are often attributed to the mysterious arching rainbow. Now study the bagel. If you slice it in…

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