Dave Cathey

Santa Fe

Founding Editor at The Food Dood Feed

Editor at Santa Fe Reporter

An ordinary dood who loves the outdoors!

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Articles

Letters to the Editor: April !6

1 week ago | sfreporter.com | Dave Cathey

Opinion, April 9 “Out of State For Profit Hospital Corporations Have Broken the NM Medical System” To the editor: Randi McGinn has written a terrifying catalog of medical errors and the pain of those patients and families. She blames New Mexico's doctor shortage on big corporations and for profit medicine. It's a compelling argument from a very successful malpractice attorney, but there may be a reason she is here in New Mexico.
3 Questions with Chef Hue-Chan Karels

3 weeks ago | sfreporter.com | Dave Cathey

Chef Hue-Chan Karels doesn’t consider cooking her vocation as much as a part of her DNA. Her earliest memories involve cooking with her grandmother in Vietnam and making pastries as a teen for her parents’ French restaurant outside East Lansing, Mich.
Farewell to 'The Big G'

1 month ago | sfreporter.com | Dave Cathey

facebook twitter youtube instagram RSS Viewpoint: Regulators or Rubber Stamps? by Dave Cathey March 26, 2025 12:00 AM To the Editor, Like many other New Mexicans, I mourn Gene Hackman, or as I privately called him “Gene-Gene” or “The Big G.” He was our frequent house guest and often mentioned how much our neighborhood here in El Dorado made him feel so relaxed away from the Hollywood nonsense. He was a frequent visitor.
We Assure You This is NOT The Fork

1 month ago | sfreporter.com | Dave Cathey

Hey everyone, The Fork has been so pointed lately they had to take the week off for tine-sharpening. Seriously, we're only talking seven measly days until their return. Relax, sit back and enjoy what SFR is calling a preview of The Morning Word. Preview? What? Didn’t SFR promise the return of The Morning Word was due in February? Then March. And now we’re pushing April? All true. Does that make us a liar? No. Just wrong.
BREAKING: Sassella and The Deli will not reopen

1 month ago | sfreporter.com | Dave Cathey

After months of back and forth with their insurance company, chef Cristian Pontiggia announced this week that he and his partners will not reopen Sassella or The Deli at Sasella.
BREAKING: Sassella and The Deli will not reopen

1 month ago | sfreporter.com | Dave Cathey

After months of back and forth with their insurance company, chef Cristian Pontiggia announced this week that he and his partners will not reopen Sassella or The Deli at Sasella.
Letters to the Editor

2 months ago | sfreporter.com | Dave Cathey

facebook twitter youtube instagram RSS Well, one letter to the editor by SFR Staff, Dave Cathey February 19, 2025 12:00 AM Letters to the Editor News, Feb. 5 “Spreading Shelter” "...the action stirred fear and protest from the NIMBY set." Poor journalism. It was not just NIMBY involved.
Lost in Translation

2 months ago | thefooddoodfeed.substack.com | Dave Cathey

The 2025 James Beard Foundation Awarrds were named last month, and among the semifinalists for Best Chet: Southwest was Tahnee Francis, whose Nigerian concept Naija Wife’s Kitchen, is making waves from its home in the Robinson Renaissance Building food court. Francis Oklahoma City nominees Kevin Lee of Birdies, Olivier Bourzerand of Fait Maison, Zack Walters of Sedalia’s Oyster & Seafood, and Eric Smith of The Crown.
The Lens: Labor March Lands at the Capitol

2 months ago | sfreporter.com | Dave Cathey

"Who wants to deport Baby Jesus?" That was among the questions posed to a throng of protesters camped on the south terrace of the Roundhouse on Monday. "Jesus was an immigrant!" the speaker reminded them, drawing a cascade of cheers, before asking rhetorically. "What happened to love thy neighbor?" A crowd of an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 protesters landed at the Capitol as part of a nationwide Immigrant and Workers’ Day of Action and SFR's photographer Adam Ferguson was there to capture it.
Letters to the Editor

Jan 22, 2025 | sfreporter.com | Dave Cathey

Opinion, Jan. 1, “Resolutions for a Democracy Under Fire” To the editor: I cut out the Opinion piece by Sasha Abramsky—Resolutions for a Democracy Under Fire—and have it hanging on my large kitchen bulletin board. I share Sasha's chagrin and frustration. And disappointment that so many folks in the US have given up thinking at all, much less considering consequences.