Mar 8th, 2013
Two Fools Tavern
I have a friend who wouldn’t even taste the great green chili jam we made last fall. He just flat refuses to consume one more food with green chili in it. The amazing jam? A casualty of the over-marketed New Mexico palette. The state cuisine is like the architectural planning limitations in Santa Fe. We [...]
Dec 28th, 2012
Our School at Blair Grocery
[If you like to listen, "tune in" to hear Stacy Pearl and I talk the delicious decadence of NOLA and the rebirth of Blair Grocery on her KSFR Mouth of Wonder radio show] My first visit to New Orleans’ notorious lower 9th Ward was in July, 2007. I’d been to New Orleans on a nearly [...]
Sep 14th, 2012
Northern New Mexico Farm Tour
Despite the number of farms I’ve seen, I don’t think I’ll ever lose my fascination for seeing the where the food i enjoy comes from. I grew up in a land where produce came from the left end of the supermarket, and meat was behind glass along the back wall. After years of the farmer’s [...]
Jul 20th, 2012
Indigo Crow
The name sounds like a song. In fact, it could be a song. The song would be about taking the long way home one day. Instead of hopping on the highway, you linger on an outward bound artery that sheds its urban angularity. The buildings start falling off, interrupted by increasingly frequent overgrown parking lots, [...]
Jun 25th, 2012
Rancho Manzana
This summer, I had the opportunity to spend some serious quality time on a hidden gem of a farm, Rancho Manzana, nestled in the hills of Chimayo. I won’t say too much here about the story, since I both wrote and photographed the story for Trend Magazine, and you can read “Back to the Future [...]
May 19th, 2012
Babaluu’s
I remember reading one of those “Best Places to Live” pieces stating that Santa Fe has one of the highest restaurant to capita ratios in the county. The “city different” loves its eats. But despite the volume of restaurants, there’s always an infectious buzz around news of a new place opening. The possibility of new [...]
Apr 26th, 2012
Box Car Farm
New Mexico isn’t easy farming land. It’s hot, it’s extraordinarily dry, and at the higher altitudes, the growing season follows its own timeframe, varying significantly from lower lands. Nestled above 8000 feet in the Sangre de Christo mountains, the experience of walking the perimeter of Box Car farm is visually more reminiscent of postcards of [...]
Apr 24th, 2012
Chocolate Maven
I want to say that Chocolate Maven is the first restaurant I visited in Santa Fe, but the truth of the matter is that I came through Santa Fe repeatedly on cross continental road trips in various travels before waking up here with sufficient frequency to claim that I actually live here… However, Chocolate Maven [...]
Mar 1st, 2012
Osteria D’Assisi
How do you breathe new life into a local institution? If you’re Lino Pertusini, you find a compatriot from the same Lake Como region of Italy, and put him at the helm of Osteria D’Assisi. Introducing executive chef Cristian Pontiggia, recently immigrated (by way of Taos) to Santa Fe. He throws a mean pizza dough [...]
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