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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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Herencia – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:01:43 +0000

When he founded Los Equipales in 1996, restaurant impresario Henrique Valdovinos admitted “I wouldn’t have tried this ten years ago, but I think people are ready for it.” As recently as a quarter-century ago, two types of Mexican restaurants existed across the fruited plain. Most common were those sharing reciprocal expectations with diners who expected and received such stereotyped “Mexican” food as fajitas; hard-shelled tacos filled with ground beef, cheese, lettuce and sour cream; chiles rellenos made with bell peppers and enough yellow cheese to clog a dinosaur’s arteries. Denizens under the spacious skies didn’t know any better and enjoyed the watered down versions of the real deal. This “Mexican” food became mainstream. The other type of Mexican food restaurants…

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Fiesta Azul Tequila House Mexican Kitchen – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 06:01:52 +0000

TIM WALZ: “I have white guy tacos.” VP KAMALA HARRIS: “What does that mean? Like, mayonnaise and tuna? What are you doing?” TIM WALZ: “Pretty much-ground meat and cheese.” VP KAMALA HARRIS: “Do you put any flavor in it?” TIM WALZ: “Uh, no. Black pepper is the top of the spice level in Minnesota, ya know” A promotional video featuring the Democratic Presidential nominee sharing a funny exchange with her Vice Presidential pick revealed the latter’s “Midwestern tastes” which include a “white guy taco.” Analysis of America’s voting preferences has been done for virtually every demographic category save perhaps the “taco vote.” Sadly, in the world of politics even a video elicits rancor and outrage when it depicts candidates behaving…

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