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Monday, July 28,2008
Food Writing

i melt with you

Sandwiches are serious business, and this town has some good ones.

A Qasimi
If cookies are a sweet treat whose powers lie in their ability to placate and delight, then sandwiches are the Platonic ideal of lunch. A really good sandwich is greater than the sum of its parts. It can comfort and soothe, and some have been known to compel hungry, weary people to spend their lunchtimes waiting in line for the promise of something delicious slapped between two slices of bread.
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Wednesday, July 23,2008
Food Writing

The Tie That Binds

What I learned from a month of gluten-free eating.

A Qasimi
Why are there such an overwhelming number of gluten-free people in this town? If many people without bona fide allergies avoid gluten, what is the appeal of going without it? I figured that there had to be some substantial payoff to get so many people to give up cookies.
Wednesday, July 16,2008
Food Writing

PATRON SAINTS

Turning the tables is harder than it looks.

A Qasimi
My service industry heroes share an ability to bring levity to the bewildering fact that so many people appear to give little thought or concern to how they act whilst dining out...
Tuesday, July 15,2008
Food Writing

HIGH SPIRITS

Cocktails offer one way to shake things up on a summer evening.

A Qasimi
Despite Americans’ continuing obsession with wine, the mixed drink—and the exuberance it delivers at the end of a long day—is no stranger to happy hour bar tops, though it is underserved.
Wednesday, July 2,2008
Food Writing

ONLINE

Log on and eat up

A Qasimi
Top ops for digital dishes.
Wednesday, July 2,2008
Food Writing

COASTING CANTINA

La Cantina at Coyote Café fails expectations.

A Qasimi
When I stumbled onto Water Street after three surreally bad meals at La Cantina at Coyote Café, I was crushed...
Wednesday, June 25,2008
Food Writing

SOUND BODY, SOUND MIND

Body Café offers an antidote to meat and potatoes.

A Qasimi
Now that I’ve finally eaten at Body Café, all I can do is wonder why it took me so long to get there and how the tight-lipped miscreants I call my friends could have allowed me to live in
Wednesday, June 18,2008
Food Writing

SUMMER GUIDE 08: DOWNTOWN DIGEST

Take a culinary escapade into the heart of Santa Fe.

A Qasimi
With an enthusiasm at once familiar and magnetic to anyone interested in great food, Susan Curtis gestures to her newly procured bounty of organic beef tenderloin steaks from La Montañita Co-op
Wednesday, June 18,2008
Food Writing

SUGAR SOLSTICE

Satisfy a sweet tooth with the best summer desserts in town.

A Qasimi
During the summer, my friend Peaches savors icy beer, cold milk and whole leaves of Romaine lettuce. She sits out on the portal, eating languorously, savoring the chilled greens like artichoke leaves.
Wednesday, June 11,2008
Food Writing

CHASE THE DRAGON

Fire and alchemy abound at the new and improved Dragon Room.

A Qasimi
It’s a Saturday night and eight New Mexico food bloggers have been promised a rollicking evening of orgiastic gluttony...
 
 
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