Southeastern New Mexico

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• New Mexico Trip #3: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Texas

  Blog: Roving Gastronome - 25 March 2010

  I admit, I was instilled with some serious anti-Texan prejudices as a child. The flatlanders came to New Mexico to ski (“If God had meant for Texans to ski,” went one typical grumble, “He would’ve given them their own mountains”). They set up resort enclaves in Ruidoso and Red River, and decorated them with chainsaw-carved [...]

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• New Mexico Trip #2: Know Your Meat

  Blog: Roving Gastronome - 24 March 2010

  Southern New Mexico is a little alien to me because they do weird things with their chile down there, and they engage in businesses that you don’t see that much of up north, such as oil drilling, UFO spotting and cattle ranching. I was driving around Roswell, headquarters of “alien” in southern NM, when I [...]

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• New Mexico Trip #1: Setting the Scene

  Blog: Roving Gastronome - 23 March 2010

  Fun New Mexico fact: It snows here! Many people mistakenly think New Mexico is warm like, say, Arizona or Texas. This leads to many panicked purchases of coats and boots upon arrival in Albuquerque. The sun does shine nearly every day, but hell yeah, man–it snows here! Which was precisely my fear when I first [...]

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