some droppings, fresh droppings. you see the droppings, you know there s one around. this time of the day, they re going to be inside their homes. there s too many predators around. it s not easy. once you find a nest, you got to dig after the little burrowing bastards. you hack, you dig. you dig some more. a lot of work for a small rodent. i was just thinking that. yeah. that s what our ancestors had to do sometimes. you know, when times go hard. right now there s this drought going on. if we didn t have the grocery stores right. then hopefully when you flush one cleanly oh! get it? got it right here. right. and give him a good whack on the head. the ratio of work to protein. is not in the hunter s favor. it s whiskers. a little bit of his tail.
ever atomic bomb was exploded in 1945 in the desert of new mexico? sushi bars, galleries, massage studios. crystals? we got em. i think i need to adjust my vent or something. i just see dark portents in all of this. well, there are a lot of dark portents. all-had today is frito pie. this food will lighten you up, i guarantee you. horseman s haven cafe sits next to a gas station that is about as far away from the plaza as you can get without leaving the santa fe city limits. it has a special feel of chilies grown specifically for this restaurant and nowhere else. i meet back up with dan flores for a little historical perspective over some of santa fe s most beloved new mexican fare. i know people who have
individualism, the freedom of wide open spaces. few places in america still manage to embody that mythic landscape of the imagination like the state of new mexico. what does freedom mean? it s different things to everybody, it seems, but something about this place manages to capture the overlap between a whole hell of a lot of very different cultures. old route 66 runs through new mexico like a collapsed vein, right through santa fe and albuquerque. it must have seemed like magic once. families loaded in a massive chrome and steel chariots with powerful v-8 engines and took off down that blacktop highway. they slept in whimsical motor lodges and bungalows, swam in kidney-shaped pools.
all right. now mr. head. all those pig parts sent down the line to harold, who s been using them for a veritable rainbow of new mexican specialties. none of our 300-pound friend will go to waste. he s getting shredded for tacos, added to the beans, cooked up with posole. it s going into chili. red or green. oh, yeah, that s going to be beautiful. the tenderloin i set aside for a little time on the grill. everyone here has put in a lot of work. and they re hungry. time to eat. i didn t know the show was about this, but i ve been thinking about it a lot. this sort of cowboys, mexicans, indian, romantic ideal. a lot of easterners came out here and fell in love with this romantic notion of the west and wanted to come out here and sort of create their own version of the west. was that a good thing?
piggy friend down into his constituent parts. beautiful. first off go the legs, what you call your fresh ham. then your forequarter, your shoulders and whatnot. the loin and rib section, your pork belly. nothing goes to waste. all right. now mr. head. all those pig parts sent down the line to harold, who s been using them for a veritable rainbow of new mexican specialties. none of our 300-pound friend will go to waste. he s getting shredded for tacos, added to the beans, cooked up with posole. it s going into chili. red or green. oh, yeah, that s going to be beautiful. the tenderloin i set aside for a little time on the grill. everyone here has put in a lot of work. and they re hungry. time to eat. i didn t know the show was about this, but i ve been thinking about it a lot. this sort of cowboys, mexicans, indian, romantic ideal. a lot of easterners came out here and fell in love with this romantic notion of the west and