New Mexico
What flavor is New Mexico? Chile peppers! El Pinto Restaurant in Albuquerque is all about Josephina Chavez-Griggs’ collections of perfected family recipes and cooking with red and green chile. The dining room and the family’s El Pinto packaged sauces are now handled by her twin grandsons, Jim and John, who are
best known in the international culinary world as the “Salsa Twins.â€
The restaurant’s menu and El Pinto products exude the flavors of New Mexico with its trinity of cultural influence – Native American, Spanish and Anglo – and the intoxicating aroma of fresh flameroasted chile. In statewide competitions, El Pinto is consistently named among the top dining rooms offering New Mexico cuisine. Food Network experts say El Pueblo makes the most authentic traditional styles of salsa.
Arizona
In 1889 Fred Harvey received exclusive rights to manage and operate eating houses, lunch stands and hotel facilities at various Santa Fe Railroad stations. At its peak there were 84 Harvey House restaurants that not only fed the hearty appetites of cowboys and Western travelers but introduced respectability with their Harvey Girls – women of good moral character – to the otherwise Wild West.
Fred Harvey’s legacy continues at three Arizona locations: the famed El Tovar Hotel at the Grand Canyon, La Posada Hotel with its Turquoise Room in Winslow and Grand Canyon Railway Hotel (Grand Canyon Railway Depot) in Williams. Each of these locations offers a historical look at the Harvey era, which thrived through the 1940s. When visiting the restaurants, take a moment to ponder Harvey’s final words to his sons: “Don’t cut the ham too thin, boys.â€
By Elana Anderson
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