Sep 21st, 2010
Sous vide. I’d been reading about it for years. It’s one of those gastro-alchemy gimmick things that Thomas Keller and my headbanger friend (and St. John’s grad) Jeth gets into. I was pretty psyched to have the opportunity to see sous vide in action in Chef Mark Connell’s immaculate kitchen at Max’s Restaurant. It’s the […]
Sep 18th, 2010
“What’s your opinion on lard?” That’s how I met George Gundrey, owner of Atrisco Cafe, and his esteemed mother. George comes from a long line of good food establishments. Since his grandmother’s first restaurant in Albuquerque, his folks, his aunts and uncles are responsible for New Mexican food icons like Tia Sophias and Tomasita’s. George’s […]
Sep 7th, 2010
In February, 2010, I began documenting the new approach to being a restaurant – from cultivation to supper club to compost – embodied by Real Food Nation. When I began shooting in February, I had little sense of the potential hidden in the the dry dirt acreage behind the restaurant. Throughout the year, grower Kathy […]
Jul 13th, 2010
Owner & Chef Lino Pertusini takes his pizza seriously. So seriously that when he decided to make Pizza, he wasn’t satisfied with simply serving it up in his already i his Santa Fe landmark italian restaurant, Osteria D’assisi. No, Lino needed a new location, Pizzeria Da Lino dedicated exclusively to the fine art of Making The […]
May 19th, 2010
It’s one thing to wax philosophic with friends about what good food grown right means. It’s another thing entirely to open a restaurant to prove it. That’s exactly what owners Blyth Timken and Andrew MacLauchlan and chef Kim Müller have done with Real Food Nation. In addition to my ongoing personal project documenting sustainable and […]
Feb 19th, 2010
in 2007, Michael Pollan’s “Omnivore’s Dilemma” changed the way I see farming, cooking, eating. I’d been hearing phrases like “Slow Food” for years, without really absorbing what it meant. I grew up mere miles from Alice Waters’ iconic Chez Panisse – and thought this whole concept of creating cuisine from locally sourced ingredients sounded pretty […]
Jan 18th, 2010
The magic of movies is in the sense of scale – everything is bolder, brighter, bigger than in Real Life. By that measure, Harry’s Roadhouse is from a movie – it looks the part, it smells the part and tastes the part of the mythic country road neighborhood diner. Thing is: all that vivid color, […]
Jan 15th, 2010
Usually when I go to Counter Culture, it’s about sitting in a warm cocoon of caffeine, insanely sweet smelling cinnamon buns… It took being there on assignment to discover the careful design details that make it such a great place to hang out.
Sep 20th, 2009
Go figure. I was born and raised in Northern California, spent countless seemingly endless summer days in tow with my Zinfandel advocate parents going from Sonoma county tasting room to tasting room…. and it took moving to Northern New Mexico to see my first harvest. A full on pinot noir harvest a half mile from my front […]
Aug 26th, 2009
There was an actual wine key. I love that. The glass wine cellar at Terra Encantado with beverage director Michel Darmon. The beauty of the cellar at Terra Encantado is its the visibility of its design – usually cellars are hidden away, not displayed for the incredible collections they are.
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