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Dr. Paul Bosland of the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at NMSU and director of the Chile Pepper Institute, has announced the release of two new chile pepper cultivars, ‘NuMex 6-4 Heritage’ and ‘NuMex Big Jim Heritage’. The project was the result of observations from farmers that these two varieties were losing flavor and yield. Beginning with seeds from …
Nancy in 1995 My longtime coauthor and food editor Nancy Gerlach has retired and moved to Mexico with her longtime husband, Jeff. Mary Jane and I will visit them in Yucatan, of course, so they’re not completely gone from our lives. Nancy recently recounted their trip by truck and trailer from Albuquerque to Yucatan, some 2600 miles, and it’s a …
Pimientos de Padron are amazingly tasty, tiny peppers from a medieval town in Galicia, northwest Spain. People flock to tapas bars of the neighboring pilgrimage town of Santiago de Compostela to savor a plateful of these unique peppers that are lightly seared in olive oil, and then sprinkled with sea salt. Their fame has spread throughout the rest of Spain …
Fall is my favorite time of the year because 1. The weather is perfect here in New Mexico and 2. I get to eat a lot of soups, stews, chowders, bisques and other variations of this one-pot meal. That’s why I was so pleased to receive an advance copy of 300 Sensational Soups, by Carla Snyder and Meredith Deeds (Robert …
Our chilehead friend from Finland, Jukka Kilpinnen, has mastered the technique of bonsai chile plants, as evidenced by this beautiful rocoto plant in a classic bonsai pot. If any of you would like a step-by-step guide to this procedure, it’s in English here. Incidentally, in Finnish, the technique is called bonchi.
