About Judy and Gary
We moved to Las Cruces, NM in the Summer of 2000. One year earlier we
had already decided to leave the hectic pace of life in the Dallas-Ft.
Worth area in favor of the open spaces and blue skies of New
Mexico. Southern New Mexico was already almost like home to us.
Over the past 20 years or so we had been here many times, on our way to and from
backpacking trips in the Gila Wilderness. During those visits we had
also acquired a taste for New Mexico chile...more about that
later.
In the Fall of 1999 we set off on an exploratory tour of the heart of
chile country. Along the way we shot many hours of digital video
footage, documenting everything from green chile picking to the
harvesting of dried red chile pods. We wound up our tour at the Hatch
Chile Festival, and by that time we were hooked!
Back home in the city, we started work on a project that we would not
actually complete until after we had relocated to New Mexico...our
"Tale of Two Chiles" cookbook and video.
Now, here we are, still going strong, still
enjoying New Mexico chile cooking, and still loving life in "The
Land of Enchantment"!