![]() ![]() They bake bread each day in two hornos-big domed outdoor ovens. They do use a lot of traditional ingredients, however, and cook things you would traditionally find in a pueblo fiesta setting. I wanted to try some authentic Native American dishes, but as Navajo chef Burt Wilson explained, there’s no such thing as pure “Native American” food anymore since for hundreds of years it’s been influenced by Mexican cooking and new ingredients brought in by the white man starting a couple hundred years ago. It’s a full-fledged restaurant that people plan to visit even if they’re not coming to the museum. This is no lame museum cafe with one espresso machine and a sandwich menu. You can easily spend a few hours there between the performance and the great museum highlighting artwork from all the pueblos, but you can really make a day of it by dining at the tasty Pueblo Harvest Cafe. To see what it’s like when it’s outside in the courtyard area of this interesting center, see Sheila’s Pueblo Center video. ![]() It was cold when I was there though, so the dance performance was held inside. When I was in the area a few months ago, like Sheila I made sure to carve out some time for the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Their decendents still live on in the pueblos around Albuquerque, Taos, and Santa Fe. Thankfully the whole range of tribes living in what is now New Mexico didn’t give up the ghost. I’ve been reading the book Collapse about societies that completely failed or disappeared, one of them being the Anasazi people of the American Southwest. ![]()
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