Road Trip

When you go to New Mexico, I strongly recommend a stop in Taos. If you go into the pueblo (they ask for a small admittance charge) you will find old women making fry bread and other absolutely delicious items in adobe ovens. The people are incredibly friendly, and when you're walking around the beautiful pueblo with fresh bread in your hand, the local dogs are even friendlier.

I haven't lived in NM for .... let's just say "several decades."

The State has a distinctive traditional cuisine that is heavily influenced by the Navajo and Pueblo cultures. They do eat tortillas, which may have been "imported" from  Mexico, but the distinctive local breads are "Indian Fry Bread," as femlow said, and sopaipillas.

These are also fried, but are more like New Orlean's-style beignets than anything else. However, they are not sweet, and they are served as the bread with meals, often accompanied by honey. You bite off a corner and pour honey into the hollow interior. 

Sopaipillas are also sometimes served stuffed with seasoned chopped meat or other things, as a main course.

Santa Fe and other towns also have a variety of restaurants with various fusions of local and European cuisines at which, I imagine, more familiar breads are served.

Have a great time. Send us "postcards!"

David