What Makes Steves’
Frito Chile Pie Legendary ?
It starts with “ The Stove ” we purchased in 1997 !
( The stove we use in our kitchen to prepare your meals was purchased right out of the
Kitchen of Woolworth's on the Plaza of Santa Fe New Mexico where the Legendary Frito Chile Pie was introduced in the 60’s by Woolworth’s Employee Teresa Hernandez. )
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Woolworth's demise marks end of era in Santa Fe
Reuters, Sunday, July 20, 1997 at 13:38 ( By Andrew Hay )
SANTA FE, N.M., July 20 (Reuter) - On the corner of Santa Fe's popular downtown plaza, a scruffy Woolworth five-and-dime store looks out of place, surrounded by chic boutiques and art galleries.
Woolworth Corp's (NYSE:Z) decision last week to close its 400 five-and-dime stores nationwide after 118 years in business allows this northern New Mexico city to remove a relative eye-sore from its glitzy downtown area that could further boost its powerful tourism industry. It looks misplaced now, but Woolworth's was where people shopped for baking tins, penny candy, Christmas knick-knacks and other simple items for 62 years, or sat at the food counter for a modest bite to eat. Though no date has been set for the plaza store's shuttering, for many its eventual demise will sever the last link to an ethnic, quaint and more familiar Santa Fe.
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Santa Fe or San Antonio ?
Humble pies: A survey of Santa Fe's Frito pies
By ROB DEWALT | The New Mexican October 6, 2005
“ The Santa Fe camp puts its money on Santa Fean Teresa Hernandez, who introduced the dish at Woolworth's on the Plaza in the 1960s. San Antonians claim that Daisy Dean Doolin, mother of Frito-Lay founder Elmer Doolin, concocted the recipe in 1932 in Texas.”
