DeeDee’s Finest Beef Jerky Carries On
“CARNE SECA HAS been around for centuries,” says Pablo Lujan, owner of DeeDee’s Finest Beef Jerky. “We’re keeping that tradition alive.” The Española jerky outfit started 25 years ago, when founder…
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Faith, Culture, and Lowriding
T HERE’S A CERTAIN SKILL —a vibe—to driving a lowrider. “You’ve got to lean back, turn on your radio, and just cruise it,” Arthur Angelo Medina says. Known to most as LowLow, Medina and his wife, Joan…
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Everyone is Family at El Paragua
LARRY AND PETE ATENCIO began selling their mother’s tacos and tamales from a roadside stand in Española in 1958, launching an extraordinary culinary journey for the family of nine siblings and their…
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Try These 25 Classic New Mexico Restaurants
Click here for an enlarged version of this map. BIBO BAR & GRILLE Bibo Tucked inside an adobe facade off historic Route 66, Bibo Bar & Grille is no stranger to shifting with the times. The original…
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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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Weaving Workshops at Your Fingertips
AT WILD WEST WEAVING, in Silver City, owner Hosana Eilert specializes in Chimayó– and Río Grande–style weavings created with handspun and dyed Churro fleece. Her three-hour Beginner Río Grande Weaving…
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Take the High Road to Taos
The Route For a whirlwind immersion in Spanish mission history, Southwestern eats, surreal rockscapes, and sublime northern New Mexican art, this High Road–to–US 285 loop—a 175-mile drive from Santa…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Twist and Shout. Beatles fans, prepare for joy as the New Mexico Philharmonic performs two hours of the group’s hits exactly as they were recorded in the Saturday night concert, Classical Mystery…
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True Heroes: Matt Probst
Matt Probst stands outside El Centro clinic in Las Vegas. Photograph by Gabriella Marks. MATT PROBST WAS HAVING A VERY BUSY 2019. The physician’s assistant and medical director of El Centro Family…
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New Mexico's Community Garden Revolution
THE SLOPE OF LAND WAS ANONYMOUS, the kind of arid topography easily overlooked in most towns. Maybe a tumbleweed, or any weed for that matter, posted up along the silty stretch of alluvium, but not…
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