Java Nice Day
BEFORE HE LAUNCHED the Las Cruces–based Picacho Coffee Roasters, Chad Morris was a jazz musician. He attributes a similar improvisational approach to learning the art of coffee. “I remember trying to…
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Cozy Up With Stokli
A ROMATIC CHAI HAS LONG BEEN a staple in India, but the spice-forward beverage now has a unique New Mexico twist, thanks to Stokli. The Santa Fe–based online shop of goods handcrafted with local…
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Say Aloha to These Island Spices
THE ISLANDS OF HAWAII are closer to New Mexico than you might think, thanks to the culinary creativity of Sue and Ray Lucero. The couple’s Las Cruces–based company, Riptide Spice House, delightfully…
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Asian Market Brings New Flavors to Santa Fe
IN THE OLD DAYS, if a Santa Fean wanted to make mapo tofu, pad Thai, or spring rolls, they’d come up short searching for the necessary ingredients around town. That void was filled when the Santa Fe…
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Cook with Authentic Sazón
CAN’T GET A RESERVATION FOR SAZÓN, in Santa Fe? Take home one of chef Fernando Olea’s mouthwatering moles. The 2022 winner of the James Beard Award for Best Chef, Southwest, has made four of his…
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Yucca Bird Herb Farm Levels Up Your Meals
SINCE 1998, THE FOLKS FROM BOXCAR FARMS, in rural Llano, near Peñasco in Taos County, have sold their organic products at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market. For Avrum Katz and Kristen Davenport, it’s a…
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Hot Little Kiss
BEAUTIFUL TO BEHOLD AND BRIMMING WITH NUTRIENTS, blackberries become downright seductive in Besito Caliente, a zesty gourmet sauce that pairs well with just about anything. This “hot little kiss,” as…
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Gift a Taste of New Mexico
THINK OF FLYBY PROVISIONS AS SANTA’S little helper. The outfit began as a web store in 2019 but this past May debuted its brick-and-mortar shop in downtown Albuquerque, carrying made–in–New Mexico…
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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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Step Up Your Mixology Skills
YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S ANGOSTURA BITTERS may have done the trick for her occasional Manhattan, but these days, that drop of added flavor has grown exotic and eclectic. Since 2010, Santa Fe’s Bitter End…
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