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This is particularly would replenish areas where sown seed had failed Wtrue when its heat is matched by its flavor. to germinate or had come up sparsely. When this Should chile—either the roasted green peppers labor-intensive process called la traspuesta del chile in midsummer or a red sauce in late fall— (the transplanting of chile) was over, it left the successfully induce a sinus- or head-clearing fields thick with plants and redolent with the sweat on a par with the best saunas, then it can be promise of an abundant yield. said without a doubt that this food is nothing less than “exhilarating, restorative, cleansing and even We did not particularly mind transplanting life-changing.” And that, my friends, is saying a chile because both in the early morning and late lot for any one food. evening, bird song filled the air and the light was so fantastically beautiful, especially when Most of us also readily acknowledge that chile, it reflected off the water. Aside from this, we with its flavor and health-enhancing properties, enjoyed dodging places where water had seeped is indeed a precious gift from the pre-Colombian deep into the soil, where a misstep would result gods of México and the many generations of in our sinking deep into the mud (amid much people who cultivated this invaluable crop across raucous laughter). millennia. They cared for its seeds and handed down the many traditions associated with the During the rest of the summer, the plants Chile and corn grown in Santa Cruz, New Mexico plant and its fruit.