New Mexico | The Literary Gardener

Usner’s Map: A Writer and Photographer’s Survey of the New Mexico He Loves

December 7, 2013 by Paula Panich

Photographer, writer, and cultural geographer Don J. Usner was a speaker at FUZE-SW, Santa Fe, New Mexico’s first food conference, held in early November this year (2013). He and another accomplished writer, Carmella Padilla (The Chile Chronicles: Tales of a New Mexico Harvest, and many other books) came to the podium together to address the […]

Categories: Place/Gardens • Tags: Chimayo, Chimayo's Old Plaza, Don J. Usner, New Mexico, New Yorker photographs of Chimayo, Sabino's Map

FUZE-SW Food + Folklore in Santa Fe: Mestizaje, Chocolate in Chaco, and What We Ate ,

November 19, 2013 by Paula Panich

(This is the second of my whacky and wildly incomplete posts on the FUZE-SW Food + Folklore Conference in Santa Fe, held Nov. 8-10 at the International Museum of Folk Art.) Here is what we had for lunch on Saturday, November 9: Oh, it was tasty: Sweet corn custard; Jalisco sopes, Nopal salad, Poblano mole, […]

Categories: Food • Tags: Food in Santa Fe, FUZE SW, history of chocolate, Museum if International Folk Art, New Mexico, Santa Fe

FUZE-SW! Food + Folklore in Santa Fe: The Elements of the New Mexican Table

November 14, 2013 by Paula Panich

FUZE-SW 2013, Food + Folklore Festival took place November 8-10, 2013 at the International Museum of Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For the sixty or so people lucky enough to attend Santa Fe’s first food conference, we were treated to the thinking of the most astonishing line-up of chefs, food scholars, anthropologists, historians, […]

Categories: Food • Tags: Cuisine of New Mexico, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert, Food in Santa Fe, Food of the Southwest, Gustavo Arellano. James Campbell Caruso, Jeffrey Pilcher, John Sedlar, Los Angeles, New Mexico, Rivera Restaurant, Santa Fe, Santa Fe cuisine