Interviewer: Victoria Phaneuf

Affiliation: University of Arizona

I had met Gabriel Rel sometime earlier, he is related to some friends of mine and owns a Mexican restaurant in town with their niece/cousin. We had met in person a few times and spoken on the phone to arrange the interview. We had originally made arrangements to do the interview with a friend of his who had worked in offshore oil since the 70s, but something came up that day and he couldn't make it. We met at his restaurant and sat in the kitchen. As we talked he was cutting, cleaning, preparing for that evening's dinner. Periodically his partner and their employee would pass through and work for a while.