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The Fresh Chile Company Podcast

Michael Swickard, Ph.D.

Welcome to the Fresh Chile Company Podcast - Enchanting Stories of New Mexico. Tune in to listen to all things New Mexico Chile, and other enchanting facts about New Mexico.

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14:58

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - No longer out of...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2025/02/27

Many things have changed over the years, especially in our kitchens. Many years ago, there were absolute vegetable and fruit seasons. In the 1960s citrus was a treat at Christmas usually sold in boxes by the local High School band as a fundraiser. Now perhaps we can say there are no absolute season except Hatch Valley grown chile only grows without freezing temperatures. But it is available every day, 365 days a year which is wonderful. Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Ch...

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15:14

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Unusual New Mexico...

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2025/02/18

New Mexico is the land of enchantment. Oh, yes, I don’t to tell you that, we all know about the very enchanting New Mexico. But what I find enchanting is some of the place names that are in New Mexico and here are a couple: Bug Scuffle, one of my favorites along with Candy Kitchen, Carrizozo and Tucumcari. Let’s talk about unusual place names in New Mexico. Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube! Fol...

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15:08

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - NM's Clyde...

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2025/02/14

When the planet Pluto is mentioned, it isn’t often that someone says, oh yes, New Mexico’s Clyde Tombaugh found it 95 years ago February 18th. Is Pluto a planet? It is with me. Not that I spend time looking in the night sky for Pluto. Nope, Pluto is about three billion miles away from the sun so even with a powerful telescope it is not easily seen. Let’s talk about Clyde Tombaugh and Pluto. Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, In...

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15:41

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - The Red and Green...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2025/02/12

Let’s talk about the red, of the red or green question. The official New Mexico question is, red or green? The 1996 New Mexico Legislature passed that Red or Green was officially the state question. It put a spotlight on the New Mexico chile pepper industry. We hear about green in roasting but what about red chile? Let’s talk traditional red, fresh red and the new red chile. Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter...

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15:29

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - The identity of...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2025/01/31

When talking about the great state of New Mexico, green and red chile are central in its identity. Where are you from? I’m from New Mexico. Oh, I love the Green and Red chile. You hear that often. But Green and Red chile in the preparation of food used to be very far apart even though they come from the same plant. The culinary use of these green and red chile peppers has changed over the last hundred years or so or even in the last twenty year.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The ...

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16:01

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Unique New Mexico...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2025/01/26

Tourists come to New Mexico for many reasons. Some destinations are New Mexico unique such as the Taos Hum, the Roswell Space Aliens museum and festival, the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, the White Sands that cling to visitors and the Carlsbad Caverns with all that spectacular space underground. Let’s talk about some unique New Mexico destinations.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube! Follow thi...

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15:20

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Unusual Old West...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2025/01/22

Since New Mexico is a big part of the Old West, there are questions about New Mexico gunfighters. Truth be known the people in New Mexico and the Old West didn’t spend their time in bars and getting in gunfights. But there were a few unusual gunfights unlike what Hollywood would put in a Western movie. Let’s talk about some unusual Old West gunfights.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube! Follow thi...

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15:29

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Why Hatch Chile is...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2025/01/16

When it comes to commercially grown chile peppers, there is a special label Hatch Chile. Some people think Hatch Chile is a specific variety of chile peppers like Big Jim or Sandia chile. It is not. Rather, Hatch chile reflects the place in Southern New Mexico where very tasty chile peppers are grown. Hatch Chile only describes the unique Hatch Valley grown chile peppers. There is even more to consider after the chile peppers are harvested. Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The...

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14:55

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - NM Statehood Day...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2025/01/06

Today, January 6, 2025, is the 113th anniversary of New Mexico becoming a state. It was a Saturday at 11:30 a.m. in Washington, D. C. when President William Howard Taft signed the statehood bill officially making New Mexico the 47th state in the United States. I want to talk about people who were there in 1912.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube! Follow this link to get 15% off of your next order:...

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15:26

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - A quick tour of...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2024/12/27

New Mexico is so big that you could make at least four other states out of our size. And we are in the unique touching three other states at the Four Corners spot. Tourist love to put one foot in one state, one hand in another, their other foot in another and if they don’t fall over, which does happen with laughter, the final hand in a fourth state. Let’s take a tour of New Mexico, a quick tour at that.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on ...

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15:09

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - New Mexico Place...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2024/12/23

Wherever you live some of the streets and some of the areas of New Mexico are named after real people. They are called Place names since the place, be it a New Mexico county, town, street or some other descriptor is tied to a real person’s name. Example: Deming New Mexico is named for the wife of a railroad executive in the 1880s. We have lots of place names of real people in New Mexico.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instag...

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15:16

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - New Mexico chile...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2024/12/16

New Mexico chile peppers always get lots of attention for the hot that they have and not appropriately for the more important outstandingly wonderful taste. The first thought most people have looking at just harvested green chile peppers is the heat, the burn, the sensation of chile peppers in the mouth. But what is more important is that they are also outstandingly delicious along with just the right amount of heat so that we smile and say YUM!Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The ...

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15:28

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - When and why chile...

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2024/12/07

There are websites that show people having a difficulty like falling off a ladder amid a Hollywood laugh track. The New Mexico version is when I ask people about their first bite of New Mexico chile peppers. Usually, it involves some discomfort. We do know when and why chile peppers are hot. It is a fact that the same seemingly hot chile peppers to some people seem not hot enough to other people. It is the same chile peppers so how can that be true? The same chile pepper is hot, sometimes too...

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15:29

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - The Legacy of New...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2024/11/27

When visitors come to New Mexico, one topic of discussion is our delicious chile peppers in foods like enchiladas. Our chile is a treat as long as to the visitor it is not too hot. It is always uniquely flavorful. That is chile with an e, not chili with an i, chilly in winter nor the country of Chile five thousand miles to the south. The very robust New Mexico chile industry did not happen by accident. It took many decades of work to take the original chile that has grown in Southern New Mexi...

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15:44

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Old Time New...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2024/11/19

In 1985 there was a poster on the wall of a restaurant in Las Cruces that caused me to smile. “On this spot 100 years ago, nothing happened.” Actually, in the then New Mexico territory in Las Cruces, a lot was happening for everyone. What was a daily task for citizens? Finding and cooking food. Let’s talk about some Old Time New Mexico food and how it was prepared.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTu...

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15:19

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - 2024 New Mexico...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2024/11/11

Today is 2024 Veteran’s Day, a national holiday celebrating the men and women who have or are serving in the military. Don’t confuse Veteran’s Day with Memorial Day which honors American service members who died in the service of their country. We want to celebrate the about 150,000 Veterans in New Mexico, and their families. We bless them all today.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube! Follow this...

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15:17

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - New Mexico's 1916...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2024/11/07

When I go outside in Las Cruces I look up and see airplanes. Little ones, big ones, those with propellors or jet engines along with helicopters. In 1916, airplanes came suddenly to New Mexico. They didn’t fly here, they took a train from San Antonio, Texas to Columbus, NM. The Army’s first military airplanes found out the effect of New Mexico’s spring winds. Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTub...

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15:09

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - New Mexico Camels

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2024/11/01

Over the years many creatures have walked over New Mexico lands. Buffalo, Elk, Antelopes, Deer, Bighorn Sheep, Cattle, Horses, Mules, Goats, but there was an animal that caused locals to wonder if they were dreaming. In the 1850s the U. S. Army brought some Middle Eastern Camels to the southwest. Here is the story of Army Camels being used in New Mexico.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube! Follow ...

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15:19

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Arizona made out...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2024/10/24

New Mexico and Arizona have an entwined history. They started as one entity, the U. S. Territory of New Mexico in 1850. In that entity from Hobbs to Yuma and northward was all New Mexico. New Mexico and Arizona became separate territories in 1862 and then states in 1912 within six weeks of each other. The history of Arizona and New Mexico are connected.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube! Follow t...

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15:07

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Sunspot Solar...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2024/10/17

New Mexico is known worldwide as the Land of Enchantment. It has a magnificent daytime and nighttime captivating countryside with beautiful vistas day or night. Half the great views you can see by - looking up. The sky above New Mexico is wonderful day and night. In the daytime you can see the Sun at a fun place to visit named the Sunspot Solar Observatory.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube! Foll...

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