Colitas De Pavo

colitas de pavo


V.21 No.31 | 8/2/2012
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Eric Williams ericwphoto.com

Food

Eeeee! Who you callin’ turkey, chicharrón?

This week in Food, Ari LeVaux visits decades-old Chicharroneria Orozco’s new digs on Bridge and samples a golden-fried plate of turkey tails (aka colitas de pavo), one of the few non-pork meats in the place.

In other chicharrón news, that’s the name of the porcine sidekick carried around by Lynette ("Shit Burqueños Say") in a new series of New Mexico State Fair commercials. Felicidades to Blackout Theatre and Expo New Mexico for a local marketing campaign that’s actually, and awesomely, local.

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Eric Williams ericwphoto.com

Dish Jockey

Los Turkey Tails

Chicharroneria Orozco

The 23 year-old Chicharroneria Orozco has for years inhabited a drafty adobe on Isleta. But this summer it set up shop in new digs on the north side of Bridge, just west of the river, in the same building that the underwhelming Siete Mares used to occupy.

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