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John A. Lacko | Special to the Gazette Huarache Kalamazoo opened in October. Their signature dish, the huarache, is made with the meat of your choice (this one is made with steak) and served on a large tortilla layered with refried beans, more meat, onions, cheese and a green or red chile sauce.
KALAMAZOO — You may or may not be able to speak Spanish, so the owners of Huarache Kalamazoo make it easy for you by putting the name of their signature dish in the name of the restaurant.

Huarache Kalamazoo has all your common favorites — burritos ($8.99 to $9.99), enchiladas ($7.99) chicken flautas ($7.99) — but since it has so much more, at the very least try the huarache for something new.

The lowdown Huarache Kalamazoo Address: 2838 Portage Road. Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays to Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays. The bill: Under $20 for a meal for two people. Access: Full access. Restrooms: Clean. Phone: (269) 382-3351. Etceteras: Visa, Mastercard, Discover all accepted; no smoking; no alcohol; take-out available.

 
A plate-size oval tortilla is layered with the meat of your choice, refried beans, more meat then laced with onions, cheese and a green or red chile sauce.

 During an initial visit I tried one that was half steak and half chorizo. It was so much food I could only eat a third. Huaraches cost from $4 to $6.

I returned the next day with the family, a Saturday around 11 a.m. and tried something else different, the Azteca soup ($5.50). It turned out to be the owner’s version of the Mexican classic tortilla soup. A healthy bowl of tomato broth, filled with strips of fried tortilla, was accompanied by small bowls of avocado, fried pork rinds, dried pasilla chilies and grated white cheese. With such a spread, I looked like the king of the table. It felt especially adventurous to compare and contrast the different accompaniments in the soup. Easy does it with the chilies.

Huarache Kalamazoo opened in October in a space formerly occupied by a Chinese buffet restaurant. It is owned by husband and wife Laura and Adrian Rojo and friend Hector Durazno. The restaurant is a dream come true for the Rojos, who first came to Kalamazoo from Mexico 10 years ago and saved their money until they could open a restaurant. The food is similar to what they know in Mexico City, Laura Rojo said.

The building still looks a lot like a Chinese eatery, but that’s easy to forget as the food totally dominates. All we needed to see was the outside sign which read “carnitas” (roasted or deep-fried pork) and “barbacoa,” (steamed cow cheeks, my companion’s favorite) and we knew we were at the right place.

My companion and I split a barbacoa taco just so we could get a taste of the tender meat and then my companion enjoyed the Huevos a la Mexicana ($5.75), two scrambled eggs with tomato, onion, green pepper and hash browns and beans on the side.

The kids liked the tacos ($1.99) and quesadillas ($6.50) well enough but were totally impressed by the horchata, a rice drink, that was served in a glass boot. When I saw it was served in such a fancy way, I asked for some, too. It was not overly sweet and had a pleasing sprinkling of cinnamon.

Jerry Campbell | Special to the GazetteJim Turner, music director and conductor of the Kalamazoo Bach Festival, takes applause after the first series of selections Sunday.
KALAMAZOO — Christmas is all about tradition, and one firmly established tradition in Kalamazoo is the annual Christmas-music concert by the Kalamazoo Bach Festival at Kalamazoo College’s Stetson Chapel.

On Sunday afternoon, a capacity audience helped celebrate the event’s 39th anniversary.

The 62-member Bach Festival Chorus was joined by the Western Brass Quintet, organist Eric Strand and pianist Gunta Lackmane, all under the direction of Kalamazoo College professor Jim Turner, who is the music director and conductor of the Bach Festival.

The program was a wonderful mixture of works from the Renaissance to the 20th century. There were traditional Christmas carols and hymns, some clothed in new or unusual arrangements.

The familiar “Lo! How a Rose” was performed in unusual harmonies in an arrangement by Hugo Distler, whereas “The Holy and the Ivy” was sung in the traditional H. Walford Davies version.

The audience was invited to sing along with the carols “The First Nowell” and “O Come, All Ye Faithful” in brilliant arrangements by David Willcocks, which included organ and brass quintet.

In addition to the carols, the Western Brass Quintet accompanied the chorus in Monteverdi’s “Deus in Adjutorium,” from his Vespers, Giovanni Gabrieli’s “Jubilate Deo” and Daniel Pinkham’s “Christmas Cantata.”

The quintet consists of faculty from Western Michigan University’s School of Music: Stephen Jones and Scott Thornburg, trumpets; Lin Foulk, horn; Daniel Mattson, trombone; and Deanna Swoboda, tuba.

The quintet was featured in their own sparkling arrangements of the Renaissance works “La Mourisque,” a morris-dance tune published by Tielman Susato, and “Now is the Month of Maying,” a lively madrigal by Thomas Morley.

With regard to the latter, it seems strange to program a piece about May Day for Christmas.

The quintet was joined in both works by WMU music student Joseph Tucker on drum.

One of the chorus’s most challenging works was “Lux Arumque,” by the contemporary composer Eric Whitacre. Curiously, the Latin text is a modern translation of Edward Esch’s English poem “Light of Gold.” The style is very ethereal, with fanciful harmonies and floating rhythms.

Throughout, the chorus gave a fine effort, and overall the performance was successful.
Soprano Susan Daniels convincingly sang the haunting Appalachian carol “I Wonder as I Wander” completely unaccompanied because of the absence of cellist Jackson Brooks, who was ill.

Good solo performances also were given by sopranos Kathleen Daudert and Sarah Link. Daudert’s best singing came in Harold Darke’s setting of “In the Bleak Midwinter.” And tenor Gwen’Alec Jordan gave a powerful performance of Adolphe Adam’s dramatic setting of “O Holy Night.”