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Coda Bakery – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Coda Bakery – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoDecember 7, 2022December 16, 2022

JP, my former boss at Intel used to pride himself on consistently working “half days.” If you’re thinking you’d like a job where you work only four hours a day, you’ve misinterpreted his definition of “half days.” To him, half days is a literal term meaning twelve hours a day.…

Don Tortas – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Don Tortas – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoSeptember 24, 2022October 3, 2022

A survey of 2,000 Americans conducted by French’s Mustard in celebration of National Sandwich Day (November 3, 2021) revealed that 66-percent of Americans put between three and six condiments on their sandwiches, 44-percent of respondents believe condiments belong on both buns while 57-percent believe the most important part of a…

SAIGON CITY – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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SAIGON CITY – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoApril 2, 2022April 7, 2022

My brother in blogging Ryan Cook describes his first day in Vietnam: “So, my first stop in Vietnam was the capital, Hanoi. My honest first impressions… what the hell have I let myself in for. Seriously…The roads are chaos! The ride from the airport to the hostel was basically 40…

Pho Bar – Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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Pho Bar – Rio Rancho, New Mexico

Gil GardunoDecember 8, 2021December 13, 2021

“In food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of man” – Vietnamese Proverb Western sensitivities cause even those among us who consider ourselves gustatorily open-minded to utter an “ick” or two at what is culinarily acceptable–even considered delicious–in other cultures. Some of us would recoil in disgust at…

Bamboo Grill – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Bamboo Grill – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoFebruary 27, 2021March 4, 2021

In his 30s, curmudgeonly London food critic Jay Rayner who’s been called the “enfant terrible (literally “terrifying child) of the gastronomic scene,” came to the realization that he hated hangovers more than he hated being drunk.  During a visit to a Vietnamese restaurant in London, he achieved an epiphany:  “huge…

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