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Ethnic Fare

by | Jun 26, 2010 | Art, Guns and Culture

Curry shocks Victorian taste buds.
“Those were exciting days. A regular pageant of non-descript people, coming and going, all the time. “I have but to close my eyes to live it all over again.... The sing-song voices of vendors crying, ‘tamales, tortillas, dulces!,’” recalled pioneer Humboldt Casad, who arrived in Mesilla, New Mexico, in 1874. The Wild West, like America itself, was a melting pot of nationalities. P


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