Advice from the Abuelas
Above: New Mexico's official state cookie has simple, yet rich flavors of cinnamon, sugar, and anise. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. GROWING UP IN TESUQUE, Loretta Sisneros Olguin had an elderly…
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Category: New Mexican Food
Fresh Meat at Shepherd's Lamb
Clockwise from top left: Ground lamb, loin chops, rip chops, kebab meat, shank, frenched rack of lamb. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. THAT SMILING FACE AT THE SANTA FE FARMERS’ MARKET belongs to…
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Quintessentially NM: Food
You know you are New Mexican when a bushel of green chiles fills you with joy. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. We Love Chile ERIC ROMERO ASKS THAT WE START by smashing the chile war, that whose-is-best…
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Where to Find the Best Tamales for the Holidays
Tamales are a New Mexico Christmas tradition. Photograph courtesy of NMTD. MANY YEARS AGO, I WROTE a book about tamales. For months, my kitchen windows were fogged from the tamalera bubbling on the…
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Ode to the Handheld
Above: The object of our desires. Photographs by Douglas Merriam. 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…
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Chiles Rellenos, Mom's Way
Above: Richard, Alicia, and Dolores Guzmán dig in. Photographs by Douglas Merriam. MY SECOND YEAR IN GRAD SCHOOL, I promised to serve chiles rellenos to my PhD adviser and her husband. Without my mom…
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Our 20 Favorite New Mexican Foods
Chile is the most essential—even sacred—ingredient in New Mexican cuisine. Photograph by Celia Raney. NOTHING BURNS OUR BURRITOS like hearing people—including otherwise knowledgeable foodies—refer to…
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The 10 Essential Ingredients of a True New Mexican Kitchen
Above: Piñon nuts, tortilla press, dried posole, blue cornmeal on husks, yellow squash, zucchini. Photography by Jen Judge. I’M NOT A NATIVE New Mexican, but I eat like one. And I’m getting to the…
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The Cookie Different
WHEN MOST PEOPLE think of baking Christmas goodies, lard and anise may not come to mind as key ingredients. Unless they’re New Mexicans. Every December here, it’s blessedly impossible to avoid rich…
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