ALL ARTICLES BY Ken Carlton
A boy remembers his first destination food from a summer long ago, and looks forward to warmer days and hopeful nights when we can start going out to dinner with friends again.
Before there was food, there was music. Early in his cooking career, John DeLucie, son of a jazz playing father and Italian cooking mother, gigged live on stage at a New York City club with legendary guitarist Skunk Baxter. Remember Steely Dan’s “Reeling in the Years?” THAT Skunk Baxter. DeLucie still plays, but his mother’s…
I pulled off at a 4-way intersection with a flashing red traffic light somewhere in the middle of central New Mexico. I’d been meandering the back roads out east of White Sands and I was starving. I hadn’t seen a town in hours. The two-block Main Street that comprised the one-horse town looked like it…