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The winding highway meandering along the murky Rio Grande through Embudo is among the most scenic in the state, particularly …
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“I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we’re Philly.” ~Lisa Scottoline New York Times Best-Selling Author …
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You always remember your first time…and if it’s good, it may set the standard by which you’ll forever measure every …
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For more than a quarter century, award-winning journalist Charles Kuralt had the type of job any aspiring sojourner would envy. …
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During a March, 2012 trip to Roswell, New Mexico President Barack Obama made the following opening remarks to his speech. …
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One of my Psychology professors cautioned students about the danger of “amateur diagnosis,” the practice of assigning specific psychoses and …
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Over the years, my Kim and I have had the privilege and honor of getting to know and love many …
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While you might not be able to judge a book by its cover, sometimes a book title will resonate deeply …
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I think a rotisserie is like a really morbid ferris wheel for chickens. It’s a strange piece of machinery. We …
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Counterculture. Growing up in rural Taos County four decades ago, I don’t know how many of us understood that the …
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This isn’t Burger King! You can’t have it your way. You get it our way or you don’t get it …
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There are perhaps thousands of examples throughout the Duke City of immigrants whose path to the American dream involved rising …
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Please say it isn’t so! According to Nations Restaurant News, a highly respected trade publication “a new crop of restaurant …
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The term “red or green” has connotations beyond New Mexico’s sacrosanct chile. For restaurateurs across the Duke City, red or …
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“Of all places in the country where you could have opened a restaurant, why Truth or Consequences, New Mexico?” You …
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7 March 2017: Over the past five years, the Owl Cafe in San Antonio, New Mexico has been the most …
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In 2009, James Beard Award-winning food journalists Jane and Michael Stern published a terrific tome entitled 500 Things to Eat …
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Possum shanks; pickled hog jowls; goat tripe; stewed squirrel; ham hocks and turnip greens; gizzards smothered in gristle; smoked crawdads. …
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The old Jewish proverb “worries go down better with soup than without” may just be the most understated aphorism about …
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While watching a “sanitized for television” version of the audacious satirical comedy Blazing Saddles, my precocious six-year-old niece asked several …
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In Chinese and Vietnamese cultures, numerology is very important. If you’ve traveled extensively, you may have wondered why the term …
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To whom should you turn when you want a recommendation you can trust for great ice cream? Your natural inclination …
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If it seems there’s a glut of restaurants brandishing a much-hyped and often self-glossed as “best” version of New Mexico’s …
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Santa Fe’s oldest restaurant (circa 1918), the Plaza Cafe is so popular that long waits to be seated are commonplace. …
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“Italy is an illusion, indeed, a mirage, the stuff of wishes.” ~Mario Luzi In the 1996 motion picture Big Night, …
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Having settled comfortably into middle age, my favorite participatory sports of basketball and tennis have been replaced by more sedentary, …
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Pope Gregory the Great was a prolific writer canonized as a saint and recognized as a “doctor of the church.” …
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“I think it’s easy to dismiss Southern food as nothing but grease and grits. I happen to like both grease …
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School cafeteria meals have probably traumatized more youth than John Carpenter’s horror movies. Lunch menus read like fine-dining, promising nutritious, …
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America may be a multicultural melting pot, but thriving within its most populous metropolises are ethnic neighborhoods–pockets of diversity residing …
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The curious appellation “Tijuana Bar” dates back to the 1920s when the 18th amendment to the Constitution established Prohibition in …
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Emeril Lagasse, the jovial master of the culinary catchphrase, has been known to exhort his studio audience to “feel the …
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Who can ever forget Fred the Baker, the haggard, perpetually exhausted Dunkin Donuts baker and his iconic lament, “time to …
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And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent …
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“I believe gelato is meant to be treated as medicine and taken daily as a prescription.” ~Author: Betsy Brandt If …
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New Mexico is truly a dichotomous land, a state in which seemingly contrasting qualities exist in symbiotic harmony with each …
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