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Beware the Imposter Chile — And Don’t Try to Sell It in New Mexico

We caught an interesting story this morning on KJZZ, the local NPR affiliate, about imposter chiles. Reporter Mónica Ortiz Uribe traveled to Hatch, New Mexico to talk to chile growers about a new law that makes it a crime in that state to lie about a chile's authenticity. . Follow...
By Amy SilvermanApril 26, 2011
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We caught an interesting story this morning on KJZZ, the local NPR affiliate, about imposter chiles. Reporter Mónica Ortiz Uribe traveled to Hatch, New Mexico to talk to chile growers about a new law that makes it a crime in that state to lie about a chile’s authenticity.

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Amy Silverman is the former managing editor of Phoenix New Times. She is a two-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. Her work has appeared on the radio show This American Life and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lenny Letter, and Brain, Child.

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