Beef.  How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and…

Is there anything more relaxing than a wood fire: its mesmerizing orange and blue flames as they lick the air,…

In the dark ages before satellite radio and podcasts, my Kim and I usually listened to books on tape to…

“Viejo El Viento,” one of my favorite songs during my youth in Peñasco asked “como vas a comparar el original…

If you grew up in New Mexico, you’ve likely heard some variation of that tired old epigram “The reason New…

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Virtually from infancy, my brother George was a prodigy with Lincoln logs, Erector sets and even Tinkertoys.  He could literally…

“”Vietnam. It grabs you and doesn’t let you go. Once you love it, you love it forever.” ~ Anthony Bourdain…

“Eating slowly is good for the stomach; plowing deeply is good for the fields.” ~Vietnamese Proverb Imagine if the village…

Jim Millington, a long-time friend of this blog, contends that “there must be a bad Vietnamese restaurant somewhere on this…

It should have been a point-counterpoint debate for the ages. My ideologically opposed and perpetually squabbling friends Carlos and Hien…

Though it ended in 1975, the Vietnam war was still very fresh in the minds of Americans when I enlisted…

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Artistic plating, scintillating flavors, inspired creativity and ingenuity are hallmarks of Vietnamese cuisine which has taken the Duke City by…

Louis De Guoy, author of The Soup Book wrote “There is nothing like a plate or a bowl of hot…

You might think that the food truck industry is an ultra-competitive dog-eat-dog business in which purveyors aren’t very gracious when…

“Whoa! I feel good, I knew that I would, now I feel good, I knew that I would So good,…

The cultural and culinary histories of Arizona and Mexico are interlocked, transcending  the geographical borders that separate them. In fact,…