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Gristmill River Restaurant & Bar – New Braunfels, Texas

Gil Garduno — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 06:01:41 +0000

My mom was born in 1929, the last year of the Great Depression. She still recalls that during her childhood, her family would take grist ( grain) and separate it from its chaff (seed coverings and other debris) in preparation for being ground into flour. They would then take the family’s horse and buggy over the precipitous mountain roads to Cleveland (the one in New Mexico). In Cleveland, they would have the grain ground into flour in “el molino,” the Cleveland Roller Mill. The Mill is a three story adobe edifice with a water-powered mill used for grinding. Today, that mill has been turned into a local museum where its original machinery remains intact and has been restored significantly to…

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Adobe Deli – Deming, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 06:03:18 +0000

In 2009 I had the great privilege of helping compile the inaugural New Mexico Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail along with the scintillating, four-time James Beard award-winning author Cheryl Alters Jamison; the brilliant Kate Manchester, founding publisher of Edible Santa Fe; and one of New Mexico’s finest ambassadors, Martin Leger, then advertising manager for the New Mexico Department of Tourism. We discussed dozens of potential candidates for inclusion into the inaugural Trail. Narrowing down those “most worthy” was like selecting the best and brightest stars on a clear, cold New Mexico winter night. Between the four of us, we had (over the years, not in one seating) voraciously consumed green chile cheeseburgers at an almost embarrassing number of restaurants, drive-ins, diners,…

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Buckhorn Saloon – Pinos Altos, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 06:28:48 +0000

In 1859, 49ers returning home from California discovered gold among the tall pines (Pinos Altos) north of Silver City. Word spread like wildfire. In short order, there were more than 700 men prospecting in the area. As with other boom towns, rampant lawlessness made prospectors lives exciting to say the least. Miners faced an anything goes attitude in the pursuit of gold punctuated by frequent raids by marauding Apaches. In the “Apache War” of 1861, Cochise joined his father-in-law Mangas Coloradas (an Apache war leader who towered at 6’7″) and some 400 Apache warriors to drive away miners from their traditional homeland. In its early days Pinos Altos saw a veritable who’s who of fame and infamy. In the…

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