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The first table

A private culinary evening in the Sonoran Desert

Mar 17, 2026
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The sun was still doing something when I sat down at a quarter past six. Saguaros framing the horizon, a cocktail I hadn’t heard of in my hand, and a menu I didn’t recognize in front of me. I said yes to this evening on instinct. I didn’t know yet that I had made the right call.

first, a note on where you are.

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