Hatch

5 thoughts on “Hatch”

1. Hatch chiles are merely hybrids. Chimayo chiles are heirloom. I found out the hard way – by asking a representative of a very old Chimayo family about Hatch chile. Got my ears torched off.

2. At the Smithsonian on Monday, we saw an exhibit on the Mexican-American War. I was explaining it, and said that the USA decided it wanted Texas, so it just went and took it. Then I said, “They also got New Mexico. They just took it over. Isn’t that awful?”

   Too which Mack replied, “No. Because if they didn’t take it we wouldn’t have all that good food.”

   1. “They took it over.” They? Isn’t that “we”?

      1. Well, I wasn’t alive in the 1840s, so it sure as heck wasn’t “me.”

3. Garrett – Yup, I’ve heard this many times. I’m a big fan of Hatch chile, which I often eat on top of a corn tortilla (made from hybrid corn) and with a big pot of hybrid pinto beans. In fact, these days it’s real hard to find any farm product grown from seeds which haven’t cross pollenated.

   Not saying I like it or agree with it, just sayin…

   Plus, I know many of the farmers in Southern New Mexico who grow green chile for a living. My purchase put food on their tables. That gives me peace.

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