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Chama Valley & Abiquiú Daily Digest Monday, May 04, 2026

Ty McDuffey

04 May 2026 — 1 min read

Ty's Take

Every fall the question comes up the same way—usually over coffee at Bode's or leaning against a truck bed somewhere between Chama and Coyote—and it never gets settled because it was never meant to. Best chile and salsa in the valley isn't something you decide; it's something you defend, the way your grandmother defended her recipe, the way families around here have been defending them since before the land grants got surveyed. You can taste the argument in a good red, see it in the char on a roasted pod, hear it in the way somebody says *their* salsa verde has the cilantro your cousin forgot. This isn't about food. It's about knowing who made it, where the chile came from, what water grew it, who taught the recipe forward. That's what a contest really measures up here—not which salsa tastes best, but which family's keeping the old way alive.

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