"CHILE KNIGHTS: Chile Lore, Tales & Tidbits" is a weekly column that appears here as well as in the Las Cruces Sun-News in Las Cruces, New Mexico, a chile-fertile valley shadowed by the majestic Organ Mountains.

Written by Sunny Conley, an award-winning freelance writer, author

She also introduces chile farmers and other aspects of the chile trade.

Click here for an index to the Chile Knights Archives.

Sunny welcomes Chileheads' input - all manner of chile lore, chile first impressions, chile stories and anecdotes, unusual chile recipes, and chile merchandise in the Southwest.

Sunny is the editor of HOT ON CHILE!, a cookbook chockfull of chile-inspired recipes from Southwest Chileheads.  Published by the Las Cruces Mesilla Valley Rotary Club, the cookbook costs $10 (plus $2.50 for shipping).  Proceeds benefit local community projects. Sunny is also the author of Café Hopping in the Southwest: 100 Charming Places to Eat, Plus Tips for Tourists, now in its second edition. Café Hopping received a 1997 New Mexico Press Women's Book Award.
Contact Sunny at the address and phone number below if you have comments, questions, story ideas or a chile close encounter you'd like to share.

Sunny Conley is the author of Cafe Hopping in the Southwest, now in its 2nd edition. She can be reached at (505) 521-9381 or write PO Box 6763,  Las Cruces, NM 88006 or e-mail Sunny@zianet.com .  Learn more about Sunny’s home, New Mexico.

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