De-High Shrooms When Fresh Isn’t Available, Soak These Babies Our first kitchen mentor, a bear of a man named Joe Parks who instructed us in the college mess hall, used to describe [...] Alex Brown and Evan George \ Apr 19, 2007 Read More
Mick’s Chile Fix Review Get Your Licks At Mick’s An honest-to-god good value is hard to come by these days. The Flowbee I bought for $59.95 came with a promise that I’d [...] Jennifer Wohletz \ Apr 19, 2007 Read More Server Dave Sweis delivers an armload of plates to a full table Saturday morning. (Tina Larkin)
Spinn’s Burger & Beer Review They Spinn-Ed Me Right ’Round I’ve vowed never to get fooled again by booze with a “Southwestern” angle. Case in point: I bought a bottle of DeKuyper’s “Cactus [...] Jennifer Wohletz \ Apr 12, 2007 Read More A slice of Texas in the ol’ Burque. (Tina Larkin)
Anchor’s Old Potrero Old-World Spirit We thought we had the old American mash down: Jack for long nights; Beam for cheap ones; Maker’s Mark for show-off ones; and [...] Alex Brown and Evan George \ Apr 12, 2007 Read More
Fish Wrap New Food Magazines, Chopped Into Bite-Sized Pieces For Nibbling Gastronomica Tagline: "The Journal of Food and Culture" Frequency/Cost: Quarterly. $12 each, one year for $39.95, or $29.75 for students and retirees. Target [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr and Laura Marrich \ Apr 12, 2007 Read More
Sal-E-Boy’s Pizzeria Review Save It For The Morning After Procuring a hot pizza pie in this town can be easy, but the quality is not always above the bar. Ordering pizza from [...] Jennifer Wohletz \ Apr 05, 2007 Read More Salvatore LiRosi tosses dough in his restaurants’ kitchen. LiRosi has been making pizzas for the Rio Rancho area for more than 25 years. (Tina Larkin)
Impressing The Honeys I’m frequently asked: “Andres, oh wise guru of wine, how much do I spend on wine for my date?” Giving this advice a [...] Andres Torrez \ Apr 05, 2007 Read More
The Dish Auspicious Chutney— In a city where restaurants open and close faster than a blinking eye (Starky’s ABQ and California Witches are two recent [...] Laura Marrich \ Apr 05, 2007 Read More
Lindo Mexico Restaurant Review It’s A Beautiful Place Cash only—not a concept that most of us are familiar with in this age of plastic-in-a-hurry. I cruised into Lindo Mexico for lunch [...] Jennifer Wohletz \ Mar 29, 2007 Read More The chile relleno ($6.99) comes with beans, rice and smothered in cheese. (Tina Larkin)
Pesach Revised Cookbook Is The Perfect Vehicle For A Discussion Of Feminism, Ritual And, Of Course, Great Food Marge Piercy remembers the seders of her childhood, where the rapid-fire Haggadah , read mostly in Hebrew, "had all the emotional content of [...] Marisa Demarco \ Mar 29, 2007 Read More Marge Piercy
