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PODCAST

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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15:09

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Old and Future...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2024/10/08

I want to talk about the chile of old such as the Old West Southwestern chile and then the future of chile. I even want your views on what combination of flavors that isn’t being done right now could be the next big chile innovation since chile is now part of a many flavors such as Hatchup, the Hatch Valley red chile and ketchup. I will confess that I put green or red or the blend of green and red chile on almost everything except Jello. Who knows? Chile Ice Cream is something new that I see ...

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15:11

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - A little this and...

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2024/09/26

I spend some mornings at a wonderful coffee shop telling stories. Most of the stories might be true. It is lovely to drink coffee and laugh with friends. Without water we wouldn’t have coffee nor green chile. I love the Rio Grande. Today’s podcast has a little of this and that stories. When you hear people talking about how the West was won, it was not with guns, though they were important. Rather, it was very precise technology that tamed the West, and that technology is still in use. For hu...

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Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - The Hidden Las Cruces

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2024/09/24

I am told that an Iceberg is 10 percent visible and 90 percent below the water line. Las Cruces hasn’t seen an Iceberg in forever, except in Hollywood movies. What is the commonality of Icebergs and Las Cruces and most towns in New Mexico? What you see, the roads, buildings and houses are only a part of the entire story of building Las Cruces. When I was a little boy, my grandfather’s ranch south of Carrizozo, NM was what would be considered primitive because it had kerosene lanterns for ligh...

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15:20

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - why is everyone so...

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2024/09/21

I had an interesting question from someone: “Why is everyone so taken by chile?” Most of us were born here in New Mexico and do not remember a time when we were not eating chile peppers. Yes, we had baby food, but then came green and red chile. We loved it. Let’s explore why people here and all over the world find New Mexico chile so very great. And it is great. There are facts about New Mexico chile to think about: for people coming to New Mexico, it is a taste that some visitors and residen...

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Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Inventing a new...

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2024/09/13

When you see a new chile pepper salsa at the Fresh Chile Company, you know this didn’t happen by accident. It took lots of work and innovation to invent, yes, invent a new salsa. Well now there is a new one and I will tell you about what it took to create Randy’s Salsa. Fresh Chile Company owner Randy McMillan wanted to have a salsa with larger chunks and wanted to use a chile pepper variety, Matador, that is loved by chile fans. The development team started the inventing process. It started ...

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15:04

Enchanting People of New Mexico - The Charley Johnson...

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2024/09/06

It was with sadness that I learned on Wednesday that former NMSU, St. Louis Cardinals and Denver Bronco quarterback Charley Johnson has passed at age 85. It wasn’t his intention to leave Texas and come to New Mexico. A couple things happened. He was raised in Big Spring, Texas. A super athlete in high school, he intended to play football in college. One problem: he got a football scholarship to Schreiner Institute which is now Schreiner University. But the year that Charley Johnson arrived at...

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15:01

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - The stories and...

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2024/09/03

In New Mexico we have what I’m going to call the New Mexico grown chile pepper plant. It’s central to our identity. We go to restaurants for their chips and salsa. The question: red or green is answered in New Mexico as both, in a blend, The official smell of New Mexico is roasting green chile. We have many chile peppers. There’s secrets of New Mexico chile.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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15:22

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

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2024/08/30

This weekend is the 52nd annual Hatch Chile Festival in Hatch, New Mexico the Chile Capital of the world. Saturday and Sunday, August 31 and September 1st the small Southern New Mexico town will be brimming with good food, good people and good times. Learn about chile pepper tastes and different ways that the chile can be prepared. Be prepared for fun and YUM. But as you enjoy the ambrosia of chile this weekend be certain that we could put names on these great 2024 chile peppers. If we are ta...

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15:06

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - 618 New Mexico towns

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2024/08/28

With some New Mexico towns and cities only the name is needed, not having to say, New Mexico. Example: Albuquerque, where there is no need for New Mexico. But some, like Las Vegas, need New Mexico or some people will make a 700-mile geographical error and an even worse cultural assumption. And Las Vegas, New Mexico was a booming town long before the first building was built in Nevada. Let's talk about New Mexico towns.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, ...

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15:09

Enchanting People of New Mexico - Albert Fountain...

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2024/08/20

New Mexico is the Land of Enchantment and Mystery. There is no greater mystery than the 1896 disappearance and obvious death of Albert Jennings Fountain and his 8-year-old son Henry. This is the third of three podcasts about Albert Fountain and this mystery that has gone on from February 1st, 1896 to today. Who killed Albert and his son Henry Fountain?Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube! Follow th...

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15:16

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Youngsters in New...

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2024/08/14

In the last Enchanting Stories Podcast I talked about 15-year-old Jim White who discovered and explored and over the years promoted Carlsbad Caverns. Several people were surprised to find a 15-year-old was working on a cattle ranch. The Child Labor laws of 1938 set the early age at 14. Before that we had even younger boys working in New Mexico. And it wasn’t all bad.Youngsters did work in New Mexico history, I’m not advocating young people be forced to work in awful conditions early in life. ...

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15:28

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - A youngster in New...

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2024/08/08

Once upon a time in the territory of New Mexico a 15-year-old cowboy was riding by himself looking for stray cattle. It was 1897. He is one of many youngsters in New Mexico history that changed our state, and we still remember him. This one teenage cowboy made a big change in New Mexico by himself. Teenagers are part of our New Mexico history, especially Jim White. We don't remember him as a cowboy because he was curious about bats.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile C...

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15:20

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Ag failures to...

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2024/08/02

I was talking with an agricultural researcher some years ago. He said something that I still remember: this success we have in growing plants, it all came about from our many failures. Only by finding what didn’t work, did we discover what worked best. While it seems odd, all that great Hatch Valley chile that you enjoy, well now, came about first by failure. 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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15:16

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - The First Civil...

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2024/07/30

As Civil War battles go, the First Battle of Mesilla July 25-27,1861 was interesting but not right for a Hollywood movie, or was it? Could there be heroes and villains, brave men and cowards? There were mistakes made by both sides. Let’s explore this Civil War battle in New Mexico to see if it would make a movie. What to call it? The Civil War battle mistakes in Mesilla.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and...

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Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Flat land agriculture

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2024/07/25

When as a young boy I was living in Japan, my father was stationed at Yokota Air Force Base. I saw the Japanese growing their rice crops both in the flat lands and on the sides of hills. Here in New Mexico, our farmers do flat land agriculture. Judging by the enthusiasm people for Hatch Valley chile, I would say that flat land growing of Hatch Valley chile is a winner. Looking at Southern New Mexico agricultureLove this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us...

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

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2024/07/20

In 1987 I moved from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Ventura, California. Imagine my surprise to find not many mile away a Las Cruces, California. But there are several towns where I have lived that are unique to New Mexico. Consider Albuquerque. Don’t need to say New Mexico. Another one that has lots of history and stories is the quaint New Mexico town of Carrizozo. Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and You...

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15:36

Enchanting People of New Mexico - Albert Fountain # 2...

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2024/07/16

In this second of three podcasts about Albert Fountain, his life and mysterious death, I want to point out the issue of salt. In today’s world salt doesn’t rise to the level of something to fight over or get in a gunfight or have say 30 to 50 people get killed. You can buy salt at the store cheaply. We are talking about the varied life of Albert Fountain, and he did get involved in this conflict in the history of our area. It had several names: The Great Salt War or The El Paso Salt War or ev...

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15:16

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - The official food...

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2024/07/10

Rudyard Kipling said: The first condition of understanding a country is to smell it. Quite true. It applies to New Mexico. We have an official smell which I will talk about. More importantly, we have an official food. You don’t just smell the official smell of New Mexico, you have the official food for breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack. Stand by for Green and Red Chile.While the pleasant smells of Fire-Roasting Chile are mildly interesting to me, it is the tasting and eating of Green and R...

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15:08

Enchanting People of New Mexico - Albert Fountain -...

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast ·

2024/07/08

New Mexico is the Land of Enchantment and Mystery as was said by writer Eugene Rhodes 110 years ago. As to mystery in New Mexico, there is none greater than the disappearance and obvious death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain and his 8-year-old son in 1896. The story has so many angles this is the first of three podcasts about Albert Fountain, a man who had enough adventures for three lifetimes fighting for law and order but ultimately was killed.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at...

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15:35

Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Las Cruces is...

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2024/07/02

Someone asked me about the history of Las Cruces. I could talk for hours, but in the next 15 minutes I will mention some stories, good and bad that locals know and some that they do not. Certainly, Las Cruces has quite a history. When the Sun is rising or setting, it often looks like a picture in an art gallery. Las Cruces is a City of Enchantment and Mystery. Let’s talk about it.Love this Podcast? Check out our website at The Fresh Chile Company. Also, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Tw...

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