Duende is not a word to be used casually and, from what I have seen in the American press over the years, it is not – and probably because it takes too much explaining each time. Let me try again.

I come not to steal from George Frazier, but to praise him. To render tribute by picking up where he left off, to grope around in the dark for “duende,” to find it and to bring it back into ...

To understand the charm of duende is to recall how George Frazier, the late and very great Boston Globe columnist, viewed it: “Duende is so difficult to define.

Duende, the modern Spanish restaurant from chef Paul Canales, has closed. Canales confirmed the last day of service was Sunday, June 30. “We had a great run,” Canales says, “there’s no ...