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Wednesday, May 9,2012
Food Writing

Salvador!

Searching for the best pupusas in Santa Fe? Aquí están

Alexa Schirtzinger
Pupusas were once my Proustian madeleine—a food that transported me so instantly and completely back to El Salvador that I could swear I heard roosters crowing and men hacking at trees with their machetes.
Wednesday, May 2,2012
Food Writing

All Business

Tanti Luce 221 is about more than just food--and that's a good thing

Alexa Schirtzinger
For 20 years, Rick Smith, former president and CEO of the American Liver Foundation, wanted to own a restaurant. But he went about achieving his dream in a decidedly un-Santa Fe way.---After interview
Wednesday, April 25,2012
Food Writing

Vegan Bliss

Aztec's back--and this time, they're nice

Alexa Schirtzinger
It wouldn’t be inaccurate to say I’ve been stalking the vegan breakfast burrito created somewhere on Aztec Street for some time now. Though long past my vegan phase (which, I’ll admit, lasted le
Wednesday, April 18,2012
Food Writing

Blue Ribbon

Happy 15th to Blue Corn Cafe and Brewery

Alexa Schirtzinger
In the film Tiny Furniture, writer, director and budding indie phenom Lena Dunham plays Aura, a recent college grad struggling to find herself after having moved back into her childhood home in New York City.
Wednesday, April 4,2012
Food Writing

Global Comfort Food

The same favorites endure at Dish n’ Spoon’s new digs

Tania Shahani
You must try everything once before you’re allowed to say you don’t like it.
Wednesday, March 28,2012
Food Writing

Ancient Ones

Can a new chef recast the Anasazi Restaurant? Should he?

Alexa Schirtzinger
Pity chef Juan Bochenski.

The former executive sous chef at Jumby Bay, a resort in warm, beachy Antigua, Bochenski moved to Santa Fe in cold, snowy November to become the Anasazi Restaurant’s new executive chef.
Wednesday, March 21,2012
Food Writing

Moveable Feast

The highs and lows of Restaurant Week

Alexa Schirtzinger
I’ve never seen Azur so packed.I walk past the small Mediterranean bistro, the semi-new venture by Ristra owner Eric Lamalle, pretty much every time I scoot out of the house for a last-minute bottle
Wednesday, March 14,2012
Food Writing

Souped Up

Santa Fe's new soup joint changes the lunch game

Alexa Schirtzinger
Santa Fe isn’t exactly a mecca for early adopters. We’re still in the nascent stages of the cupcake craze that hit the coastal cities in the early aughts; we have yet to use weird contraptions to
Wednesday, March 7,2012
Food Writing

Bringer of Gifts

Chocolatier meets ancient practice with modern sensibility

Melina Laroza
With its brown and white walls, and sparse décor, CoCopelli Chocolatier is tidy, but it feels a little one-dimensional, common. Only when I talk to the owner, Lauren Roybal, does it open up, revealing hidden chambers like a set of matryoshka dolls.
Tuesday, February 28,2012
Food Writing

Grand Prix Fixe

Restaurant Weeks offers a cuisine of place

Melina Laroza
Food is a widespread cultural obsession concerned with a return to place, transforming the locavores’ demand for regionally derived ingredients into experimental, sociohistorical experiences on the plate.
 
 
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