Ask Ari: Cooking Utensils That Won’t Kill You Or Your Pans I am confused about which type of utensil to use while cooking. I have heard that plastics can leach cancer-causing chemicals into foods [...] Ari LeVaux \ Feb 25, 2010 Read More
Restaurant Review: The South Valley’s Rio Grande Tacos Y Salsas Don’t Fear The Tripitas Although “Salsa” is part of its name, the menu at Rio Grande Tacos y Salsas doesn’t once mention that word. Yet the salsa [...] Ari LeVaux \ Feb 25, 2010 Read More Alambre is akin to fajitas with cheese on top. (Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com)
Restaurant Review: Cecilia’s Café Is The Red Chile Queen Of Cable Cable Darling, Red Chile Queen It was a cold and snowy Sunday morning when I first went to Cecilia’s. The air smelled like piñon smoke. Inside, it was [...] Ari LeVaux \ Feb 18, 2010 Read More Blue-corn-piñon pancakes have plenty of whole nuts. (Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com)
Ask Ari: The Virtues Of Monosodium Glutamate (Msg) Q: A while ago you mentioned that you don’t mind monosodium glutamate. Since I regard MSG to be nothing less than evil incarnate, [...] Ari LeVaux \ Feb 11, 2010 Read More
Restaurant Review: Cactus Pads And Queso Fresco At Antojitos Lupe Just What You’re Craving In Bernalillo Antojo is Spanish for “craving”—one sense of the word actually specifies the craving of a pregnant woman. Antojitos , the diminutive plural form, [...] Ari LeVaux \ Feb 11, 2010 Read More From the word for mortar and pestle, molcajete is an entire meal served in a stone vessel. (Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com)
Restaurant Review: May Hong Is An Outpost For Vietnamese Cuisine In The Far Northeast Heights Omnivore’s Delight If Talin Market is the center of Albuquerque’s galaxy of Vietnamese restaurants, May Hong is a far-flung planet. It’s tucked into a strip [...] Ari LeVaux \ Feb 04, 2010 Read More Pineapple rounds out the unexpected flavors of bun bo hue (spicy beef soup). (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Restaurant Review: Siam Café Bangkok’s Best In Burque One of my favorite ways to eat fish is fried with Thai curry on top. It’s the best of two worlds—fried fish being [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jan 28, 2010 Read More A colorful presentation of Thai beef salad (Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com)
Restaurant Review: Lucia At Hotel Andaluz My, How I Do Like Them Oysters Downtown’s newly opened Hotel Andaluz seems like it was designed to make you feel cool. As we walked through the lobby en route [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jan 21, 2010 Read More For starters: grilled oysters with smoked chile mojo and pancetta (Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com)
Restaurant Review: Best Lee’s Far East Flavors In The Northeast Heights After two trips to China, I’ve noticed a trend: The dishes I remember from China don’t often show up on American Chinese restaurant [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jan 14, 2010 Read More Peppery and packed with ingredients, Best Lee’s makes a mean hot-and-sour soup. (Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com)
The Year In Food: 2009 Was A Study In Contrasts Between Local Food Systems And Giant Corporations As 2009 closes, most of the highlights in the food realm could be framed in the context of two competing paradigms that have [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jan 07, 2010 Read More Green-washing grocery chains