Re: [CH] From today's Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper - Chimayo
=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:08:57 -0400
http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens/ff98.html
At 08:29 AM 10/28/2005, Matt Evans wrote:
>Well said, Perry. It's funny that you mention how people don't know
>much about New Mexico. When my wife and I got married in North
>Carolina (we were still living in NM) some of our friends from NM came
>to the wedding. When they went to the airport in Raleigh to fly home
>-- and this is no joke -- they were told that they needed to go to the
>international terminal! This was in 1997! Ahhh....the forgotten
>state.
>
>Matt
>
>On 10/27/05, Perry C. Abernethy <pcabernethy@comcast.net> wrote:
> > The first chile strains grown by the colonial Spanish in New Mexico
> > were in Velarde and Chimayo in 1598. The chile here earlier and grown by
> > the pueblo indians along the Rio Grande along with corn, squash and
> > beans. (All still grown here) The Velarde and Chimayo chile are the
> > primeval stock for most of our other chiles, including the Espanola,
> > Analheim, Big Jim, etc. Yes, chile is the main topic of conversation in
> > New Mexico, and we are very proud of it. In fact the state question is
> > "red or green or Christmas?" One of our universities has dedicated a
> > great deal of its resources and researd to creating a Chile Pepper
> > Institute and researching and creating new strains.
> > http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/agnic/chile.html When my Dad would go to
> > to New Jersey on business they didn't even know New Mexico was in the
> > United States and sometimes think its all desert here, like Arizona.
> > They even think they have the oldest churches, capitols and buildings in
> > the United States. Alas, they do not know their history or their
> > geography. New Mexicans have long thought it very interesting to talk
> > about chile, even on the internet. Just as a restored historical
> > building is news, for us a restored historical chile is news-tremendous
> > news.