As the sun set over the Sonoran Desert, the animals came out to play. The deer grazing among the saguaro were probably mule but could have been white-tailed it was tough to say at dusk with only mini red-light flashlights in hand instead of binoculars. The bird that perched on a tree branch for a few seconds before flying away had the distinctive silhouette of an owl.
A man drove a vehicle through the front door of South Tucson s Taqueria Pico de Gallo last Christmas Eve. Eleven months later, the owners are thankful to reopen.
“Gastronomy is the nexus of food and culture,” Janos Wilder told me over lunch at Tucson, Arizona’s historic El Charro Café, the nation's oldest Mexican restaurant in continuous operation by the same family, which celebrated 100 years last year.