We Fed Them Cactus
Here are some key lines that captured me (not to mention the family stories that took my breath away):
The ricos in New Mexico, as mentioned in this story were those who owned land.
The life of the New Mexico ricos was not understood because they kept their private lives secure from outsiders.
There are different ways of reckoning wealth and a set pattern does not exist and may never be found. People who live from the soil have abundant living and, compared with that of the wage earner, it can be classed as wealth.
“New Mexico is well adapted to chile cultur
Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert
A charter member of La Sociedad Folklorica in Santa Fe, she was committed to preserving hispanic cultural traditions, including dance, music, language, folklore, and costumes. Her traditional cooking became legendary and her three books on food preparation, history, and oral traditions are valuable resources for historians.
Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert had the rare experience of living in two centuries, over a lifetime that spanned nearly the entire 20th century. Particularly as a Hispanic New Mexican woman, her place in time helped position her to achieve and experience many seminal benchmarks. An author and teacher, she dedicated her life to preserving Hispanic traditions. Today, Cabeza de Baca is most remembered for her efforts to record, teach, and share the traditional lifestyles of northern New Mexico.
Born on May 16, , on a ranch outside of Las Vegas, New Mexico, she was raised by her grandmother and father after her mother’s death when Fabiola was four years old. From her upbringing, she learned a sense of pride in her roots and history and acquired a lifelong curiosity about historic lifestyles in a century when technolog
Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert, born on May 16, in Las Vegas, New Mexico, was a Nutritionist, Organizer, and Author of Spanish decent. She is known for making tremendous advancements in food safety in the southwest. Most of her time was dedicated to helping people in New Mexico learn how to properly can, dry, and preserve food in order to make it last longer with a decreased risk of food borne illnesses. She is also known for organizing markets where Native American women could sell their homemade goods and make a profit.
A few years after Fabiola was born, in , her mother, Indalecia Delgado, died and left behind her husband and four children. Fabiola's father and grandmother ended up having to raise her and her siblings. Fabiola began her primary education at a Catholic school named Loretto Academy and finished it at a public high school run by New Mexico Normal. Before finishing high school, she went to study Spanish and history in Spain for one year. She received her high school diploma, along with a teaching certificate, in
In , she began teaching at a one-room school a few miles away from her family's ranch. She would continue teaching at various schools for the next ten
Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert
From the exhibit catalog of The Women in New Mexico exhibit by the American Association of University Women - New Mexico Chapter:
Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert, a New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service agent, was devoted to teaching residents of the state's northern rural areas skills to upgrade the quality of their daily lives. As a writer, she has documented an important part of our state's cultural heritage -- the traditions, customs and patterns of daily life of the descendants of the conquistadores.
Born in at her grandfather's hacienda near Las Vegas, New Mexico, she was reared by her grandmother, a Spanish matriarch, from whom she learned both household arts and traditions of a family and culture dating back to early days of Spanish settlement in New Mexico.
In she received a Bachelor in Pedagogy degree from New Mexico Normal School, now Highlands University.
After teaching for several years she enrolled at New Mexico State University, receiving a B.S. in home economics in , and embarked on a year career as an extension agent. From till she was extension agent for Santa Fe County and for the next 12 years served as agent-at-la
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