Articles
The Meaning of Food
Mid-summer, my boo Jeff scheduled his ...
On Schweinhunds
On Schweinhunds I don’t usually do ...
Rebel Resolutions
Ten Tips for Food Resolutions That Actually Stick
An Open Letter to the CEO of Grubhub
We used to call it "greenwashing" when big companies ran ads that co-opted the imagery and lingo of the things they destroyed. That's what delivery ...
How to: Dig a raised bed
French Intensive Raised Bed Gardening came ...
The very things we keep doing to meet our customers digitally are making restaurants even more replaceable by what is most disrupting us.
Places
Book
It All Turns On Affection
Wendell Berry and It All Turns On Affection We change the garden wall every season, and this one is a tribute to the writer and ...
Book
The Meaning of Food
Mid-summer, my boo Jeff scheduled his second bike packing trip with friends from University of Texas architecture school. They intend this to be an annual ...
Business
On Schweinhunds
On Schweinhunds I don’t usually do this, but since many of you have been patiently waiting for new projects on Central in ABQ, I thought ...
Food
The Feel Good
The Feel Good started with a sentence fragment from a collage I had made (yes, those three words), a sense of exasperation about the direction ...
Technology Criticism
An Open Letter to the CEO of Grubhub
We used to call it "greenwashing" when big companies ran ads that co-opted the imagery and lingo of the things they destroyed. That's what delivery ...
Farming
How to: Dig a raised bed
French Intensive Raised Bed Gardening came out of wartime gardens in French cities, as a way to grow food densely in small areas. It’s ...
Technology Criticism
In Other Words, We Lied
One of the first things I wrote when the pandemic hit and all my restaurants were closed. I suddenly had all this time to consider ...
Food
Eat Local, Order Local – That’s how we sustain restaurants’ futures
Full article on Santa Fe New Mexican →
Technology Criticism
Ghost Farms, Ghost Kitchens, Ghost Towns
I wrote this follow up to my Open Letter to Matt Maloney for a local Santa Fe publication, still pretty fired up as you can ...
Nature
The Sight of Green
Humans are wired to relax and thrive at the sight of green. This isn’t just woo-woo hippie stuff. As Esther Sternberg describes in her ...
Food
Protecting Democracy
When I opened my first restaurant, I spent so much time there my mom sent me a twin bed for Christmas. The mattress company delivered ...
Technology Criticism
Falling Out Of Favor
Austin loves technology. Austin loves food. Not surprisingly, Austin loves food delivery apps like Favor and UberEats. But here’s the inconvenient truth: You can’t ...
Food
How We Eat Informs Who We Are Becoming
Food delivery apps want to bring the big, messy world of food to your door without the fuss of eating out. But the world of ...
Food
Why These Walls Matter
An old-school restaurant expert once taught me about something he called the “three portals of restaurants.”
Food
Bring your appetite, not your fears, to the dining table
At the beginning of every year, hot on the heels of holiday excess, my salad restaurant Vinaigrette fields a flurry of calls and emails about ...
Farming
Learning to Dig: Why the Way Back Up is Down
Sometimes I sit with my elbows on my kitchen counter and stare at the red cabbage sprouts. I wonder if my restaurants will be open ...
Family
My Grandma and Her Impeccable Palate
Erin Wade learning how to cook with her grandmother In the 1980s, my grandma drove a Plymouth Champ. It was one of those tiny ...
Business
Proposed minimum wage increase would have unintended consequences
The New Mexico State Legislature has sent to the governor a bill that would raise the minimum wage over coming years and progressively increase the ...
