Flash In The Pan: Red Chile Dreams How To Survive Until Next Roasting Season Red and green chile are two manifestations of the same pepper that together form the backbone of New Mexican cuisine. Both colors, and [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jan 23, 2014 Read More
Restaurant Review: Chopstix Chinese Cuisine And Chopstix Chinese Cuisine Proves It When Jackie Chan was in Albuquerque in 2009, filming Spy Next Door, he ended up spending a lot of time at Chopstix, a [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jan 09, 2014 Read More
Restaurant Review: The Daily Grind An Albuquerque Original Resurfaces The 17-year-old Daily Grind has moved into a new location, with such little street visibility you could almost call it a secret location. [...] Ari LeVaux \ Dec 19, 2013 Read More
Flash In The Pan: Your Brain On Grain A New Book Links Gluten To Alzheimer’s Celiac disease is widely known to cause digestive problems. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, according to the book Grain Brain: The [...] Ari LeVaux \ Dec 05, 2013 Read More
Ethical Soup: When Chickens Get Too Old To Lay, It May Be Time For Dinner When Chickens Get Too Old To Lay, It May Be Time For Dinner An unintended side-effect of the backyard chicken craze has been the creation of a generation of homeless hens. A typical layer will produce [...] Ari LeVaux \ Oct 24, 2013 Read More
Restaurant Review: Café Istanbul Distinctly Mediterranean At Café Istanbul By virtue of its bright yellow paint job, Café Istanbul stands out against the drab strip-mall-ery of Wyoming Boulevard. The color sends a [...] Ari LeVaux \ Oct 17, 2013 Read More
Flash In The Pan: Gmo Labeling A Democratic Path Forward Since the narrow defeat last November of California’s Prop 37, which would have mandated labeling of genetically modified foods, the sentiment behind the [...] Ari LeVaux \ Oct 03, 2013 Read More Should they be labeled?
Restaurant Review: Thai Saweiy Thai Saweiy Offers Pan-Asian Tex-Mex Thai Saweiy inhabits the space where Thai Crystal used to be, on the first block of Gold Street, Downtown. The switch came when [...] Ari LeVaux \ Sep 26, 2013 Read More
Restaurant Review: The Corn Maiden The Delights Of Corn Maiden Dining at the Corn Maiden is a big deal. There’s no way around it. After turning south off the bustle of US 550 [...] Ari LeVaux \ Aug 29, 2013 Read More NM heritage steak and eggs tartar (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Flash In The Pan: Carrots And Garlic Garlic loves carrots, carrots love them back, and I love them together, in the garden and on the table. They’re both root vegetables, [...] Ari LeVaux \ Aug 08, 2013 Read More