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New Mexico #5: Top Tastes

by zora on July 9, 2010

I ate a lot of good stuff. There’s a Flickr set here, showcasing my post-trip belly.
Highlights included:
*Doughnut from a bakery on 2nd Street in Raton, NM

It had all the crunch of a good cake doughnut, and all the airiness of a perfect yeast one. The bakery is this very bare-bones operation–a huge room with [...]

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New Mexico #4: Reading a Menu

by zora on July 6, 2010

I drove around in the middle of nowhere for quite some time: Chama, Tierra Amarilla, Cimarron, Clayton, Springer, Wagon Mound.
In those places, menus say “Eggs” and “Steak” and “Side of bacon.” It’s pretty straightforward.
So by the time I rolled back into fancy-pants New Mexico, where they use figurative speech and throw their adjectives all [...]

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