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El Camino is Here to Serve

W ANITA JONES STARTED WORKING AS A WAITRESS at El Camino Family Restaurant, in Socorro, in 1991. For more than two decades, she served up tasty Frito pie, triple-decker Monte Cristo sandwiches, and…

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¡Viva la Cocina!

DINING AT THE LEGENDARY Rancho de Chimayó feels like coming home. Perhaps that’s because this hacienda in historic Chimayó was the family residence of Arturo Jaramillo, who grew up here savoring…

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Kakawa Makes the Food of the Gods

THE MAYA AND AZTECS OF MESOAMERICA celebrated chocolate, enjoying its bitter qualities brewed with almonds, chile, and herbs in powerful elixirs. (Traces have been detected in pottery mugs found in…

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Biscochitos Baked in Tradition

WHILE GROWING UP ON SAN FELIPE PUEBLO, LaShon Cate learned to make biscochitos with her grandmother Candelaria Sandoval. “She had a day care with all the granddaughters,” Cate says. “We all had our…

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Nuts for Del Valle Pecans

IN 1986, SALLY HARPER DREAMED of turning her family’s newly acquired pecan orchard into an all-organic enterprise. By the early 1990s, she had trucked thousands of pounds of pecans to health-food…

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Margarita Shake Up

Los Conejos, Albuquerque This agave bar represents breadth and variety, with more than 70 varieties of mezcal on its menu. “We want our drinks to show that agave spirits are more than just shots…

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