Nancy Gerlach, who retired and moved to Mexico last year, continues her story about adapting to life in Mexico (has she un-retired? We can always hope): "It hardly seems possible that another holiday season is upon us, but it is. I’ve got to admit it’s hard to get into the spirit without cold temperatures and some snow, but here in …
by Nancy Gerlach Feliz Navidad! It hardly seems possible that another holiday season is upon us, but it is. I’ve got to admit it’s hard to get into the spirit without cold temperatures and some snow, but here in Mexico the weather is like Christmas in Southern California. The Mexicans, however, are in the Christmas spirit. Around the first of …
There is no such thing as a Hatch chile, despite all the hype about them. It is not a chile variety, as many people think. Yes, there are chiles grown in Hatch, usually the varieties ‘Barker’ and ‘NuMex 6-4’. These grown-in-Hatch varieties are no better than those grown in the Mesilla Valley or in Deming. There are simply not enough …
On January 17, Italian Catholics celebrated the Feast of St. Anthony by, well, feasting. My friend Marco Budinis traveled to Chiavari for its feast. He writes: "In Italy Saint Anthony the Abbot is remembered for being the protector of domesticated animals. In several towns in Italy (as it is in Chiavari in January) several celebrations are held run and there …
Tony Kamenoff in Orange City, Florida, writes: "These are pics from December. I had about60 peppers on my two plants from 3 to 3.5 inches long. I keep them in pots to move in and out according to the weather. The plants came up in March and and first one did not have pods until August and finally ripened in …
