La Nueva Casita – Las Cruces, New Mexico
Heading east on I-10 from Deming, we espied several billboards touting Las Cruces as “The Real New Mexico.” Yeah, it’s a branding effort designed to attract more visitors to the City of Crosses, but there’s a lot of truth to the city’s official new slogan. New Mexico’s second most populous city does have A LOT going for it. For culture, weather, history, beauty and cuisine, it’s easy to build a case that Las Cruces may well be the real New Mexico. That may especially be true about New Mexican food. Every time we dine at a restaurant in the Las Cruces area, I extol the deliciousness, piquancy and authenticity of the food and lament the “dumbing down” of New Mexican…