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Trails
Two roads wrote the menu. One came north from Mexico City with wheat and pork; the other came west from Missouri with flour and left the tortilla changed.
Start here. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro as a food-supply corridor — what the colonial supply trains carried northward from Mexico City, which ingredients they introduced to Pueblo cooking, and what changed after the 1680 Pueblo Revolt severed the road for twelve years.
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The Camino Real Brought Livestock, Wheat and a New Set of Spices North
The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro as a food-supply corridor — what the colonial supply trains carried northward from Mexico City, which ingredients they introduced to Pueblo cooking, and what changed after the 1680 Pueblo Revolt severed the road for twelve years. A piece about a road as a menu.
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Photo: Santa Fe Trail 2 · Wikimedia Commons Read →The Santa Fe Trail Arrived in 1821 and Brought Wheat Flour With It
The trail's 1821 opening and its immediate effect on Santa Fe's food supply — specifically the arrival of American wheat flour in commercial quantities and what that did to the tortilla, the sopaipilla and the biscochito. A before-and-after argument anchored to a named year.
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Photo: Wikimedia Commons Read →Six Dates That Put the Food Where It Is
1610 (founding of Santa Fe), 1680 (Pueblo Revolt), 1821 (Trail opening), 1912 (statehood), 1943 (Los Alamos), 1996 (State Question) — each date as a specific event with a documented food-culture consequence. A chronological argument, not a timeline widget.