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Bobby Flay is visiting the City Different, undoubtedly chowing down at some primo local restaurants and perhaps visiting his old Beat Bobby Flay foe, Chef Martín Rios of Restaurant Martín. Flay posted a photo to his Instagram early Saturday from the New Mexico Museum of Art courtyard. “Love those red chile ristras,” the iron chef wrote. Amen, Bobby. Just don’t eat the museum’s. Those are decorative.

In 2017, it’s hard out here for the humble consumer of news. What’s real? What’s fake? Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry, whose mustache is as full as his Bobby Flay gubernatorial aspirations, fell prey to one exceedingly obvious piece of fake news last weekend, tweeting out a link that would’ve been dumb even if it were real. The spam post concerned the comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who, the fake news report said, broke down in Albuquerque and was rescued by a few humble locals — who didn’t even recognize Seinfeld! Can you believe it!? Berry did, tweeting: “Great story about the heart & soul of #ABQ. Your welcome back any time @ JerrySeinfeld.” He deleted it some time later.

“Banana,” more than any other word, haunted New Mexico spellers last year. That’s according to a newly released Google Trends data map that tracked the top word in each state that was Google-searched with the phrase “how to spell” in 2017. An extra “n” here or there might indeed make your friendly neighborhood grammar instructor cringe, but New Mexico’s is hardly the most egregious entry on the list.

Residents of Wisconsin, for instance, most often needed help with the word “Wisconsin.”

You can check out the full map of U.S. misspellings on the El Mitote blog.

Are you all caught up on Fargo? El Mitotero sadly is not. But Parade has a nice profile of costar Olivia Sandoval, who has a Santa Fe connection. Sandoval’s grandfather, Ben Sandoval, was a longtime Santa Fe dentist, now retired; her mother, Linda, also has Santa Fe roots.