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Almost Time For the Chile Roasters!

Posted by Bruce Bilmes and Sue Boyle , August 15, 2008 00:21

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If you’ve never been to New Mexico during the chile harvest, when fresh chiles are fire-roasted in countless fields and parking lots, blanketing the landscape with their sweet perfume, then you are missing one of the essential and most pleasurable of Roadfood experiences! And as John Larson writes in The Mountain Mail of West-Central New Mexico, the season is almost upon us. Green chiles should be ready within a week or two, red chiles a few weeks after that. Read the story here.

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8/15/2008 4:13:45 PM #

YES! I miss the chile roasters.

When I owned and operated a world-class restaurant in Colorado, I always looked forward to the chile roasters setting up their equipment in the Kmart parking lot.

My ex-husband, "Gums", and I usually bought at least 25 pounds, most to be used in the restaurant, and a few pounds for use at home.

Of course, after I lost my restaurant (bankruptcy), my husband moved me to a Jewish community in Clearwater, Florida, and then divorced me.

I REALLY miss the roasted New Mexico peppers.

Loved your post, by the way.

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