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Eating Wrong
It was a masticatory week for Santa Fe’s restaurants
Devour 2010
In the three years that SFR has published its locavore’s guide to Santa Fe, the local food movement has continued to feel like it’s tilting toward a full-blown renaissance. But the movement has also found some inevitable friction. Food is a key component of the economy, and the progress of a local food movement is tied to the progress of a local economy movement.
Living the Dream
“Farming should be an occupation, a career choice that people can make a really good living at,” Arty Mangan says. To that end, Mangan is working with acclaimed ecologist Peter Warshall to develop a map and pamphlet that plot New Mexico’s way forward into a more sustainable, localized, fair trade culinary future.
Five Ways to Be a Better Locavore…
You can always buy stuff, but how often can you buy essential locavore skills locally?
Where’s the Beef?
When buying meat in New Mexico, one has many options—grass-fed, grass-finished, natural, organic, grain-fed, Slim Jims—but only approximately a 1 percent likelihood that it’s from here. That could change. A 2008 report commissioned by Beef Industry Improvement of New Mexico says branding (the marketing kind) would be a huge boon to the local beef industry.
Saving Dinner
ln a brightly lit classroom at Salazar Elementary School, two dozen 9- and 10-year-olds wield knives, have direct access to large amounts of flour and crowd in tight groups around three small tables, vying for a turn to take part in a single activity. The weird thing is, they’re all perfectly well-behaved.
Waiting for the Future
The future really ought to be now. If 2010 isn’t the future, we don’t know what is and we’re starting to get suspicious about whether or not it’s ever going to show up. New Mexico’s future has to do with more than just Virgin Galactic’s spaceport and Chevron’s 1 megawatt concentrating photovoltaic power array—there are a host of local and regional initiatives we’re also waiting around for that aim to improve daily life and local living.
A Sharp
Progressive Americana master John Courage, 26, is kind of like Bob Dylan meets Tom Petty with the low and soulful timbre of Leonard Cohen. In other words, Courage is fuckin’ awesome, and you’ll be sad to hear he’s leaving Santa Fe in May for greener pastures on the West Coast. I caught up with Courage to discuss his music and his future plans.
The Sound of Silence
As I stood in front of a 1972 photograph of David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed arm-in-arm, I wondered if I was able to accurately assess the image. Was I drawn to Bowie’s piercing eyes, Reed’s impossible hipness and Mr. Pop’s bared teeth clutching a pack of Lucky Strikes?
Bozos and Boredom
Let history handle the business of judging director Tim Burton and Disney’s take on Lewis Carroll’s fantasy classic against all other film-adaptation attempts (which most notably occurred in 1903, 1933 and 1951). A more pressing question is whether Burton’s film will satisfy fans of his earlier work.
