Artists Find a Home in Carrizozo
THE EMERGENCE OF A HIP desert art town follows a certain pattern. It starts with the rise of an industry in a small community: maybe a military base (see Marfa, Texas, and Slab City, California) or a…
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What We're Reading: The Half White Album
“SOME CRITICS SAY you should never start or even use a dream in a story,” writes Cynthia J. Sylvester (Diné) in The Half-White Album (UNM Press), “but I’m awake now and pretending that it wasn’t a…
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Chile en Nogada
CHILES RELLENOS—poblano or green chile peppers stuffed with cheese or meat, then often battered and fried—are pervasive on menus throughout the state. In Taos, Antonio’s the Taste of Mexico serves up…
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Green Chile Cheeseburger
PART OF MONTE CARLO STEAK HOUSE’s allure is in its unassuming environs, just behind a family-owned liquor store off Central Avenue in Albuquerque. Patrons must go around the back to enter the attached…
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Green Chile Stew
CUSTOMERS HAVE BEEN COMING to The Shed, in Santa Fe, for extra-piquant chile since 1953. But, as general manager Frank Carroccino says, “The stew seems to hit people differently. It’s served quite…
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Charlie's Bakery & Cafe
IF IT’S AN ELECTION YEAR in San Miguel County, you’re likely to meet a politician at Charlie’s. “They love this place,” says owner Charlie Sandoval. “That’s the only time I get to see the governor.”…
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What We're Reading: Susto
AFTER POET TOMMY ARCHULETA’S mother died, he found a heavily marked-up homemade book on curanderismo among her things. That mixture of ancestral and herbal lore informs his sensorily elegiac new…
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Tikka Spice Fires Up Your Taste Buds
FOR NEW MEXICO FOOD HISTORIANS, the moment was unprecedented. Last fall, Tikka Spice did what no other restaurant had done: The four-year-old Albuquerque food truck took home the triple crown of…
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Socorro's Restaurant Is Deliciously Simple
DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, when she was born, Socorro Herrera’s family ran a grocery and liquor store out of their late-19th-century home in Hernandez. By age 17, she was a young wife with a new…
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What We're Reading: The Ballad of Plácida Romero
“I BEG GOD FOR MY MEMORY,” begins the Spanish ballad “Corrido de Plácida Romero.” On August 8, 1881, Romero was captured at her home near Grants, in one of the last Apache war raids into the…
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