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Tuesday, June 2,2009
Food Writing

Falling Star

A Santa Fe supernova leaves me searching for something more stellar

Yuki Murata

The Flying Star Café is open and busy, but still waiting for a satisfying take off.

Tuesday, May 26,2009
Food Writing

Cook Swap

Get fed without lifting a finger

Yuki Murata

Detailing the bright idea to swap for seven days with my significant other the tasks of menu planning, grocery shopping and meal preparation.

Tuesday, May 19,2009
Food Writing

Food Fight

Which came first: the rooster or the corporate legal department?

Yuki Murata

An international corporate dispute over brand names has come home to roost with a local retailer.

Tuesday, May 12,2009
Food Writing

Not Just Teatime Anymore

What’s brewing at The Teahouse?

Yuki Murata

Established in August of 2003, The Teahouse recently acquired a beer and wine license and now operates later into the evening. The food menu also has changed and includes more substantial offerings, a range of nibbling treats and additional sweet temptations.

Wednesday, May 6,2009
Food Writing

Recession Concessions

Sometimes price fixing is a good thing

Yuki Murata

315's prix fixe tryst is three courses of edible economic stimulus that mediates the irreconcilable disparity between increasingly limited funds and ever-escalating gastronomic cravings.

Monday, April 27,2009
Food Writing

Really Fabulous Food Nation

Slow food has sped up

Yuki Murata

Mahatma Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” It is a fitting mantra for Real Food Nation co-conspirators Andrew MacLauchlan, Kim Müller, and Blyth Timken. Their new restaurant and adjacent preparation facility are located at the intersection of Old Las Vegas Highway and Highway 285, but the societal crossroads the business inhabits is more consequential than its physical location.

Tuesday, April 21,2009
Food Writing

Eat Your Spinach

Learn to like your veggies for what they are

Yuki Murata

Sometimes, when I offer my son steamy edamame or a delicate bud of asparagus, even the Jaws of Life can’t pry his lips apart to accept these vegetal wonders.

Tuesday, April 14,2009
Food Writing

Hold the Cheese

Food with heart, and I’m not talking organ meat

Yuki Murata

Beyond the ethical philosophy underlying whether creatures—we humans—have a right to farm, collect, milk, kill, use or eat other creatures, there is also the importance of personal and global health, environmental sustainability and harmony between all living things. All these ideas are in effect at Vegan Santa Fe.

Wednesday, April 8,2009
Food Writing

Munching in Madrid

Follow me down to The Hollar!

Chef Josh Novak puts his own twist on Southern cuisine. Nothing deep-fried, no greasy gravies—the food here simply uses the best aspects of a regional style of cooking that combines flavor and texture with eye appeal.

Wednesday, April 1,2009
Food Writing

Tasteless Memory

At least everything doesn’t taste like juniper

It’s barely April and juniper has already poisoned the Santa Fe air with its rusty pollen intoxicant for weeks.

 
 
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