A New Mexico Christmas—Season of Renewal
CHRISTMAS IN NEW MEXICO IS UNIQUE. It is a time of celebration and a time of memories. When I was a child, my mother’s preparations for Christmas meant a week’s work in the kitchen. Pots of posole…
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Tag: New Mexican Food
Nancy's Silver Café is a Treasure
WHAT PEOPLE LOVE ABOUT NANCY’S SILVER CAFÉ is what they—and their relatives—have always loved about it. Generations return to the downtown Silver City spot for made-to-order tacos, from-scratch…
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Plaza Café Celebrates 75 Years
AS A KID, ONE OF LEONARDO RAZATOS’S jobs was to stand on a milk crate and make toast all day for customers of his family’s restaurant, the Plaza Café—a Santa Fe Plaza landmark celebrating 75 years…
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Editor's Letter: It's a Miracle!
AT NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE, we’re blessed with a talented staff devoted to bringing you the stories of our state’s people, places, and passions. By most any measure, our jobs are a treasure. We get to…
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20 Green Chile Cheeseburgers To Try Now
Check out this map of the top 20 green chile cheeseburgers Pajarito Brewpub & Grill When owner Patrick Mockler-Wood calls Pajarito Brewpub’s Green Chile Pub Burger ($19) a “smash burger,” it’s not…
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Bite into the History of the Green Chile Cheeseburger
The Origin Story No one can say for certain who was the first to slap green chile and cheese on a hamburger. (We can say that this person was a genius.) Most experts agree that the Original Owl Bar &…
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Editor's Letter: Patty Melts
MY FIRST MEAL IN NEW MEXICO was a green chile cheeseburger—and I’ve been a tad obsessed ever since. We had been on the road for about eight hours and arrived in Taos gnaw-on-the-steering-wheel hungry…
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Ultimate Guide to How We're Eating Now
Flora Taco To-Go serves up a collection of tacos in Albuquerque's Sawmill Market. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. How We're Eating Now The pandemic fundamentally changed the way we break bread—and we…
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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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