New Mexico-Inspired Herbal Teas
“I’VE HAD A MASSIVE love affair with this state since I went to college in Santa Fe,” says Trevor Logan, who founded Desert Mountain Tea Company in 2022. After 30 years of running restaurants and pie…
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Polychrome Brings Natural Wine to NM
IN BOSQUE FARMS, Polychrome is bringing a little punk rock to the wine world. Friends Zac Webb and Timothy Eyster, who met in Albuquerque’s late-’90s music scene, have traded guitars for grape…
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Go Nuts for Mesilla Pecans
IT MAY SOUND NUTTY, but Kristen Worthington knew almost nothing about pecans before moving her family from California’s Sacramento Valley to Mesilla Park in 2019 to start a pecan farm. “In fact, I…
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Taste New Mexico in Freeze-Dried Form
WHAT HAPPENS to a green chile that’s exposed to minus 40 degrees and the kind of low-pressure environment you’d find at 200,000 feet elevation? Cat Frost has the answer: It turns light and airy—like a…
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No Bull, Just Prime
IN ALBUQUERQUE’S NORTH VALLEY, No Bull Prime Meats lives up to its name. For the past six years, Brett and Linda Rizzi have run a no-nonsense, all-flavor specialty shop and online store offering…
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Hummus Gets a Taos Twist
IN TAOS, where creativity runs deep, even hummus gets an inspired makeover. “I’m a hummus fiend,” says Chelsea Travers, who founded Taos Sprouted Hummus in 2022. “During Covid, I was making it all the…
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Koo-Weh Cookies Mixes Art and Flavor
HOW HARD CAN IT BE? Trisha Ray thought several years ago when she offered to make custom sugar-cookie bouquets for each member of her son’s football team. Very hard, it turned out. “They weren’t the…
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Bringing Tradition to the Table
FOR FELIX MAURO TORRES, food isn’t just a business, it’s a connection to culture, heritage, and the lessons he learned growing up in Albuquerque’s North Valley. As the founder of Southwest Heritage…
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A Greener Way to Grill
PICURIS PUEBLO’S FORESTRY department is on a mission to make cookouts more environmentally responsible. The pueblo offers all-natural wood charcoal made from piñon, juniper, ponderosa pine, cedar, and…
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Southeast Meets Southwest
A POT OF HOMEMADE Laotian chile paste was always on the table in Kinna Perez’s family home. When she first brought her husband, Manuel, to visit, he instantly recognized the flavor-packed condiment as…
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