Gesturing To All Life: Animales Animados Drums Up A Vivid Menagerie Of Aerialists And Musicians Animales Animados Drums Up A Vivid Menagerie Of Aerialists And Musicians Animals often populate the dreams of children. Or so claim the people who study such things. Animales Animados, a fantastical flying menagerie set [...] Gail Guengerich \ Apr 03, 2014 Read More
Restaurant Review: Savory Fare Café & Bakery Savory Fare Offers An Indoor Picnic’s Worth Of Food There’s a framed award on the wall of Savory Fare Café & Bakery that reads “Best Undiscovered Restaurant”—issued by Albuquerque The Magazine in [...] Gail Guengerich \ Mar 13, 2014 Read More
My Heart Is In The Trees: And Under A Giant Sea Bird And Under A Giant Sea Bird Temporarily unemployed people fend off boredom in various ways. Some of us learn how to play “Hava Nagila” on the ukulele and bang [...] Gail Guengerich \ Feb 06, 2014 Read More The ten of hearts (Denise Weaver Ross)
Restaurant Review: Elaine’s Elaine’s Is The Real Deal “Everything in moderation … including moderation,” said a bunch of famous people. It’s a useful declaration to pull out and polish off when [...] Gail Guengerich \ Jan 30, 2014 Read More
The Lure And Lore Of Mustard Tell people that you once spent a week in Dijon (because some salaud stole your bike on day 5 of your budget bike [...] Gail Guengerich \ Jan 30, 2014 Read More (Gail Guengerich)
Museum Review: Kichi For Tako It's Time For An Intervention Tako Kichi means “kite crazy” in Japanese. Kichi is a good word to know because it seems the Japanese are kichi for so [...] Gail Guengerich \ Jan 23, 2014 Read More Insect kite, circa 1925 (Courtesy David M. Kahn)
Restaurant Review: Adieux Café Taking Bar Food To The Next Level In The Heart Of Downtown It’s quintessential Albuquerque—the westerly 400 block of Central. On one side the opulent-kitsch KiMo Theater (and stately Alibi offices), on the other, a [...] Gail Guengerich \ Jan 16, 2014 Read More
Restaurant Review: Azteca Chinese The Mysterious Azteca Chinese “Azteca Chinese.” Whatever could it mean? If you have hopes of plum sauce horchata, naughty conquistadors peering from behind red fans or a [...] Gail Guengerich \ Dec 26, 2013 Read More Kung Pao chicken (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Food 101: Fire Cider Your Secret Weapon Against Seasonal Ailments Infused vinegars are nothing new. Neither is the cynosure of all infused vinegars—that great crackling comet in a bottle known as fire cider.But [...] Gail Guengerich \ Dec 12, 2013 Read More Go ahead and drink it. I dare you. (Gail Guengerich)
Restaurant Review: Nosh Nosh Brings Jewish Food To Burque New Mexico’s Crypto-Jews (Jews who survived the Spanish Inquisition, covered their identity and hitched with the Spanish to the New World) have been [...] Gail Guengerich \ Nov 21, 2013 Read More