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Have Fork, Will Travel: The 7 Dive Bar Wonders of New Mexico

Mina's Dish: Downtown restaurant news roundup

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Food for Thought: Three easy asparagus recipes your mamma will love

Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com

Ham hock and pork garlic sausage make bun bo hue a fine swine soup.

Restaurant Review: Café Trang sticks flavorful forks in the road

ABQ Beer Geek: Seasonal microbrews spring eternal

Courtesy of Do Something Reel Film Festival

Lunch Line

Mina's Dish: Whole Foods Market brings us a foodie film festival for Earth Month

Food for Thought: The delicious synergy of three-in-one gardens

Sue Brawley

May brings lots of greens and radishes.

Restaurant Review: Hidden treasures await at Japanese Kitchen

Mina's Dish: Los Ranchos rises early for market season

 

Food for Thought: Sharing the harvest at “swap meats” and seed exchanges

Mina's Dish: New cookbooks on cheesecake, American food and charcuterie

Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com

Seafood salad

Restaurant Review: Thai Cuisine’s specials run the gamut

Mina's Dish: Websites that foodies savor

Ari LeVaux

A spicy-sweet mangoneada is like frozen sunshine.

Mina's Dish: Oysters in ABQ

Food for Thought: A homemade paleta that’s perfect for spring

Joshlyn Marino

Local color

Mina's Dish: Ready, set, grow with CelebrateSeedNM

Restaurant Review: Sneakerz has volleyball and decent hot wings, but not much else

Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com

AmerAsia’s dim sum cart yields a variety of Chinese dumplings.

Mina's Dish: Roadrunner’s Mobile Food Pantry rolls into a neighborhood near you

Restaurant Review: AmerAsia & Sumo Sushi offer the best in bipolar dining

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The secret ingredient

Mina's Dish: The Girl Scouts host a cookie caper

Food for Thought: Student collectives breed a healthy kind of codependency

Van Rixel Bros. caramelized macadamia nut gelato ... and a friend

Mina's Dish: Host your own Oscars snack-down

Restaurant Review: Carolina’s does Mexican by way of San Diego

ABQ Beer Geek: Bad Ass Brewery--Does the new brewpub live up to its name?

Mina Yamashita

Dried wakame seaweed and Dragon Well green tea leaves expand into delectable edibles.

Mina's Dish: Brew up exotic flavors by cooking with tea

Food for Thought: USDA green-lights a frankenfood apocalypse

Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com

Tamarind mussels at Saigon Restaurant

Restaurant Review: For some reason the Alibi never reviewed old Vietnamese favorite Saigon Restaurant. Here we give credit where credit is due.

Mina's Dish: Mina Yamashita muses on recent restaurant openings and closings.

Colorful “purple haze” carrots from Johnny’s Selected Seeds

Food for Thought: Breaking frozen ground on a spring salad garden

Mina's Dish: New York Times food columnist Joan Nathan’s search for Jewish cooking in France