New Mexico Magazine

Our Cuisine Nourishes the Soul

ustin Pioche (Diné) didn’t grow up eating Native foods, like blue corn mush with juniper ash or kneel-down bread. “I ate mac and cheese and Taco Bell,” he recalls. Now the Farmington resident and chef behind Pioche Food Group is on a mission to preserve and promote the traditional cuisine he missed out on as a kid. At his eight-course LorAmy pop-up dinners,

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