Above: Huge cottonwoods populate the recently reopened Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve. Courtesy of the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve. Friday in Santa Fe: Stroll through the Leonora Curtin Wetland…
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Additional links will be added as more stories go online. If you'd like access to the entire issue right now, sign up for our Zinio app or purchase a copy on a newsstand near you. The Mystery of Big…
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Above: Clemente McFarlane's first love was skateboarding. "My first bike was a way to strap my skateboard to my backpack and ride somewhere instead of taking the subway," he says. Photograph by Kate…
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IT WAS A NEWBIE MISTAKE. Back in March, I’d purchased a few jars of Hatch green chile salsa and mentioned in a meeting that they weren’t as spicy as I expected. “To New Mexicans, it’s not about the…
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ON THE NORTH END OF ALAMOGORDO, McGinn’s PistachioLand draws a crowd with its nut orchard, country store, winery, ice cream parlor—and a whopper of a roadside attraction. The 30-foot-tall…
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How to make New Mexican chile sauce from scratch. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. SECRET SPICE BLENDS and special techniques may mark some cooks’ pots of divine goodness, but these two recipes will get…
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Above: Chantelle Wagner tends to the family's U-pick chile field. AT A NINE-ACRE FIELD in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, would-be farmers are on the hunt. Big Jim Farms offers the only U-Pick chile…
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Above: A Jemez Pueblo family with a chile ristra, ca. 1905. Courtesy of Simeon Schwemberger collection at the Center for Southwest Research, UNM Libraries. LOOKING AT HIS FIELD in early July, Jemez…
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Illustration by Chris Philpot. CAPSAICIN, THE ALKALOID that makes chiles taste hot, has been a healer since the ancient Inca and Aztec cultures. These days, super-hot chiles are bred specifically for…
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Above: José Gonzalez earned the Farmer All Star award from the Santa Fe Farmers' Market's Market Institute in 2015. IN A HUMID, tree-curtained corner of the Española Valley, José Gonzalez walks among…
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