ReMARKable Palate #227: Christmas Food Traditions

On this week’s show, Jennifer and I discuss our family holiday traditions, and what it was like growing up making our favorite holiday foods. I grew up in New Mexico, and talk about my love of posole, tamales, and biscochitos, and Jennifer talks about making both lasagna and Cloutie Dumpling for Christmas growing up in an Italian and Scottish household!

Theme Song: “Go Fish”, by Big Money Grip, from the Podsafe Music Network.

ReMARKable Palate is a production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com

CMN Video: Treehouse Bakery & Cafe

Maria Elena Bustamante-Bernal talks about the philosophy behind The Treehouse Bakery & Cafe, an organic, sustainable bakery and cafe in Santa Fe, NM. Located on the ground of Plants of the Southwest, Treehouse produces fresh pastries daily, and also creates wedding cakes, including gluten free cakes.

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ReMARKable Palate #160: A Taste of Santa Fe Part 2 – Treehouse Bakery and Cafe

This week we speak with Maria Elena Bustamante Bernal, owner of the Treehouse Bakery and Cafe on the grounds of Plants of the Southwest in Santa Fe, NM. Maria Elena is dedicated to baking organic, sustainable, and even on occasion gluten free pastries, cakes and sweets. Operating out of a unique adobe building, the folks at Treehouse are building and sustaining their own community, and also satisfying sweet tooths.

Treehouse Bakery and Cafe

Theme Song: “Go Fish”, by Big Money Grip, from the Podsafe Music Network.

ReMARKable Palate is a production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com

CMN Video: Chef Oliver Ridgeway, Anasazi Restaurant

Chef Oliver Ridgeway of Anasazi Restaurant at Inn Of The Anasazi in Santa Fe, NM shares with us three special dishes from his eclectic menu, and talks about the inspiration he takes from his diverse cooking background and from New Mexico.

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ReMARKable Palate #159: A Taste of Santa Fe Part 1 – Anasazi

This week, it’s back to Santa Fe, New Mexico, as I speak with Chef Oliver Ridgeway, newly appointed Chef at Inn of the Anasazi, a luxury Rosewood Hotel just off the Plaza in Santa Fe. Chef Ridgeway is incorporating seafood and serving it alongside his refined interpretations of classic New Mexican dishes. We hear about his unlikely path from Sussex, England to New York, and on to Santa Fe.

Inn of the Anasazi

Theme Song: “Go Fish”, by Big Money Grip, from the Podsafe Music Network.

ReMARKable Palate is a production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com

ReMARKable Palate #158: A Taste of Taos

This week, I share with you two hidden gems I discovered on my recent trip to Northern New Mexico. First, we’ll hear from Charlotte Ritchie-Slater from the Ritchie-Slater winery in Black Lake, New Mexico, the state’s only producer of fruit wines. Charlotte’s wine are characterized by a fresh, floral dryness, unlike so many cloyingly sweet fruit wines. We then speak with Chef Frederick Muller, food historian and proprietor of El Meze, a Moorish-inspired restaurant in the historic El Torreon Hacienda in El Prado, just outside of Taos. He tells us just how North Africa influenced many of the traditional foods of Northern New Mexico.

Ritchie-Slater Winery
El Meze

Theme Song: “Go Fish”, by Big Money Grip, from the Podsafe Music Network.

ReMARKable Palate is a production of The Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com

CMN Video: Fork in the Road – Tamales in Chimayo

Chef Mark stops in Chimayo for a visit to the Santuario de Chimayo, and some red chile tamales at Leona’s, some of the best in the state of New Mexico.

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