New Mexico without chili? That's as unthinkable as France without wine.

M2 PRESSWIRE-7 February 2005-US ARS: New Mexico without chili? That's as unthinkable as France without wine(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02072005 But in the late 1990s, global competition threatened to completely steal the market for the state's cultural icon, the chili pepper. The New Mexico Chile Task Force was formed to fight back, using the talents of the chili industry aided by researchers at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), New Mexico State University, and the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories. The Task Force decided that ...