(05-05-2020 11:11 AM)Itinerant Texan Wrote:  

(05-05-2020 11:07 AM)PojoaquePosse Wrote:  

(05-05-2020 10:54 AM)Itinerant Texan Wrote:  

(05-05-2020 10:11 AM)PojoaquePosse Wrote:  

(05-05-2020 03:26 AM)NMSUPistolPete Wrote:  It's the Mexican food in the Southern New Mexico. The Hatch Valley and the Mesilla Valley to the south where Las Cruces is located produce some of the best (if not the best) green chilé in the world. But Hatch Green Chile in the signature chilé. Also, Southern New Mexico has a lot of pecan orchards (one of the largest in the world) and is growing in the amount of vineyards and wineries.

It's not Mexican food. It is New Mexican food. Very different from Mexico...

*Southwestern* food..spills over to AZ as well.

Mexican Food
New Mexican Food
Tex-Mex (catch all for "southwestern food")

Nah, I'm from Texas, frequent NM, and live in Arizona. Tex-Mex is its own thing entirely.

Its been my experience, Arizona and California make a Baja style of Mexican food using fish, shrimp, cilantro, and green tomatillo sauce (in lieu of green chile) in that cuisine. Tex-Mex uses ranch chili beans, black beans, chili con carne; leaner cuts of meat are used in this cuisine. Northern Mexican food uses more chicken, pork, and the fattier cuts of beef. i.e. Caldo de Res, Pozolé, Menudo, Molé, fideos, carne asada carne adovada, Machaca, etc. etc. And, New Mexico food is a combination of Northern Mexican food infused with the local Indian foods; Maize (corn), wheats (flour), green chile, sopapillas, cumino (spice), biscochitos.