When visitors come to New Mexico, one topic of discussion is our delicious chile peppers in foods like enchiladas. Our chile is a treat as long as to the visitor it is not too hot. It is always uniquely flavorful. That is chile with an e, not chili with an i, chilly in winter nor the country of Chile five thousand miles to the south. The very robust New Mexico chile industry did not happen by accident. It took many decades of work to take the original chile that has grown in Southern New Mexico for centuries and through research develop it into today’s chile. More than a hundred years ago three things happened to enable today’s chile peppers.

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In 1985 there was a poster on the wall of a restaurant in Las Cruces that caused me to smile. “On this spot 100 years ago, nothing happened.” Actually, in the then New Mexico territory in Las Cruces, a lot was happening for everyone. What was a daily task for citizens? Finding and cooking food. Let’s talk about some Old Time New Mexico food and how it was prepared.

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Today is 2024 Veteran’s Day, a national holiday celebrating the men and women who have or are serving in the military. Don’t confuse Veteran’s Day with Memorial Day which honors American service members who died in the service of their country. We want to celebrate the about 150,000 Veterans in New Mexico, and their families. We bless them all today.

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