Alimentando el Alma Nuevo Mexicano

July 08, 2013

By Levi Romero

Who says there aren't anymore tortilleros? In this video feature, Alimentando el Alma, Andrew Herring demonstrates various traditional Nuevo Méxicano recipes and throws in a memorable cuento for added measure. Andrew produced this piece as a student enrolled in my New Mexico Villages and Cultural Landscapes course.

This piece was written by:

Levi Romero

Levi Romero’s work focuses on cultural landscapes studies and sustainable building methodologies of northern New Mexico, including centuries-old traditions of acequia systems, molinos, salas and other agrarian and cultural contexts related to the upper Rio Grande watershed. His documentary work is often presented through an interdisciplinary studies format that includes lecture, video/audio, and literary presentation. This ongoing series in New Mexico Mercury is dedicated to his and his student’s oral history and documentation work in the Chicana/o Studies program at the University of New Mexico.

Romero is the published author of A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works, In the Gathering of Silence, and the forthcoming, Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland. He was awarded the post of New Mexico Centennial Poet in 2012.