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Alicia Inez Guzmán

Where There’s Smoke

Above: Circle J Barbeque smokes 60 pounds of meat every day. Holy cow. Photography courtesy of Circle J Barbeque. It might seem sacrilegious, but Will Ponder will go ahead and say it: Circle J…

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Campfire Classic

Above: Once a campfire classic, s'mores are now an everyday one. Photograph by Inga Hendrickson. Whether camping, glamping, hosting a party, getting married, or simply hanging out on your couch, the…

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Ode to the Handheld

THAT A MASS OF EGGS, potatoes, and breakfast meat could be wrapped in a tortilla, lathered in red or green chile (or often both), and parked on a plate was to me a notion as old as time itself. New…

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The Forager’s Art

Above: Johnny Ortiz says he and his girlfriend, Afton Love, spend more time foraging, tending animals, and making art than they do in the kitchen. Photographs by Douglas Merriam. DRY TREE BRANCHES…

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Hear Their Voices

Above: Andrea Carlson's Anti-Retro . Photographs courtesy of Highpoint and the artist. In Julie Buffalohead’s Revisionist History , a fox lolls on its back, dallying with a constellation of shadow…

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The Photo Boom

Above: Betty Hahn's "Dark Peony on Gold." Photograph by Betty Hahn. WILL WILSON HAS ALREADY BEGUN experimenting with photography when he first saw Joel-Peter Witkin’s simply titled show Forty…

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Piping Hot

Above: Tea.o.graphy's Chocolate Rose Oolong tea. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. Imagine one of those cloudy New Mexico days, where the sky hangs so low the mountains seem to be holding it up. It’s…

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Digging Deep

Above: The Silver City Museum. Photography courtesy of Silver City Museum. As a Norteña, I sometimes feel like other parts of the state elude me, including a place like Silver City, where the whole…

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Street Smarts

I have a soft spot for both Vietnamese food and French crepes, but I never thought of them working together as fusion. Even the word is suspect to me. But Tapas Tree Grill, in Silver City, proved me…

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