Pueblo Chile will be the focal point of a festival being held in St. Louis, MO October 28-29. The Flavored Nation Food Festival is a 2-day food festival that will be representing all 50-state foods. Pueblo Chile will be represented for Colorado at this first-time event. This is an exciting opportunity to bring attention to Pueblo, to Colorado and to Pueblo Chile on a national scale.
Flavored Nation is the first food festival in the country devoted to showcasing one iconic dish from each U.S. state.
Find more information about Flavored Nation Food Festival see an interactive map here.
To celebrate the spring planting season, the Visit Pueblo Convention and Visitors Bureau puts on the Spice Up Spring Pueblo Chile Recipe Competition. Local restaurants craft unique culinary delights with the sole criteria being that their one-0f-a-kind recipe must feature Certified Pueblo Chile. Delectable dishes from the 2017 Spice Up Spring Competition included Pueblo-Chile-inflused bagels, macaroons, cheeseballs, artichoke dip, Mexican fruit cups, and more! Among some of the most creative dishes were Colorado Lamb Lollies with Citrus Mint from Brues Alehouse, Pueblo Chile Potato & Bacon Rose by Wine Down By the River, and Chile Chicken Cordon Bleu from Peppers at Milberger Farms, to name a few.
The winning appetizer Read More
A bill to recognize the chile growers of Southern Colorado with their own special license plate won voice-vote House approval this morning.
House Bill 1012, sponsored by Rep. Daneya Esgar, D-Pueblo, was requested by the Pueblo Chile Growers Association, which is mounting an economic development campaign to give their products a higher profile.
“The Pueblo chile is Colorado’s chile,” she told the House, according to a press release. “Our local growers deserve recognition of their outstanding chiles.”
Having gotten a taste of Colorado’s effort, the New Mexico Legislature is rushing through its own license plate bill recognizing its popular Hatch chiles. Today, Esgar amended her bill to make sure Colorado can win Read More
Thanks to a new branding campaign, local leaders and the newly formed Pueblo Chile Growers’ Association now have their sights set on Pueblo Chiles taking a permanent seat in Colorado’s culture, instead of just Pueblo’s.