Red and Green: New Mexico’s Food Scene is On Fire – September, 2026
LAYING THE SMACK DOWN IN SANTA FE: While becoming a superstar in the wild and wacky world of wrestling during the late 1990s and early 2000s, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was renowned for his microphone skills and catchphrases. Among the catchphrases he popularized and made part of the American vernacular was the term “smackdown,” a term which means starting a physical fight or winning a contest easily. The “Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment” often threatened to “layeth the smackdown” on his hapless opponents while propelling the term “smackdown” into the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Locally, the good folks at Edible New…