GALERÍA TEPÍN
SOMETHING SMALL BUT SPICY!
 !Bienvenidos a Galería Tepín!
DANCING AT THE PORTAL:
A PAPEL PICADO EXHIBIT BY CATALINA DELGADO TRUNK
The Border Book Festival, Inc., will host exhibit of Papel Picado art by Master artist, Catalina Delgado Trunk, during the 18th annual Border Book Festival, The Shamanic Journey, which will take place April 19-22, 2012 in Mesilla, New Mexico.
The exhibit features the work of talented cut paper artist, Catalina Delgado Trunk as well as the work of well known
Chicano/Chicano/Latino/Latina Artists including Gilbert "Magú" Luján and photographer Daniel Zolinsky, Offical "Fricano"—French/Chicano.
Galería Tepín is located in a historic Mesilla, New Mexico building that was once the residence of Don Antonio Lucero and his family. It was opened on the side and served as a shelter for the coaches. It was later covered and used as a shed to dry skunk pelts. In the past, the building has served as a coin shop, the Groves Art Gallery and now houses Galería Tepín. The mission of the Border Book Festival is to bring the public a gallery that features the work of multi-dimensional, multi-disciplinary and multi-genre artists who are exploring the known and unknown worlds through their art.
Three words come to mind with Galería Tepín: IMAGE, WORD & SPIRIT.
The exhibit will run through May. For more information, contact The Border Book Festival, Inc.
www.borderbookfesival.org
GALERÍA TEPÍN
2220 CALLE DE PARIAN
MESILLA, NEW MEXICO
575-523-3988 / bbf@borderbookfestival.com
 Tepín peppers (Capsicum annuum var. glabrisculum), also called chiltepe or chile tepín , is a wild chile pepper that grows primarily in Central America, México, and the southwestern United States. It is sometimes called the "mother of all peppers" because it is thought to be the oldest of the Capsicum annuum species.
Tepín peppers or “bird’s eye” peppers are supposedly one of the hottest peppers in the world. Some chile enthusiasts argue that the Tepín is hotter than the habanero or Red Savina. These tiny peppers are about 3/8″ round to slightly oval, and are found in the deserts of Arizona, New México, Texas, and Northern México. Tepins are extremely hot, measuring between 50,000 and 100,000 Scoville Units.
In México, the heat of the Chiltepin is called arrebatado ("rapid" or "violent"), because, while the heat is intense, it is not very enduring. This stands in contrast to the Chili Piquín, which is somewhat similar in size and shape to the Chiltepín, but delivers a decidedly different experience. Piquíns are not as hot as Chiltepíns (only about 30,000-50,000 Scoville Units but they have a much slower and longer-lasting effect.
The word “Tepín” comes from the Nahuatl Mexican word meaning “little one” and “flea.”
The first year, plants require 120 days for green fruit and 200 days from the setting out of plants to mature red ripe fruit, so they are best grown in containers year-round and brought indoors over winter in areas that have frost. The second year, when plants are put outdoors the next spring, they start flowering quickly, and start producing fruit from July to October.
Plants can live for 35-50 years that way. In Florida, Hawaii, southern Texas, southern NM and southern Arizona, and coastal California, the plants will grow as perennial bushes outside year-round, if protected with a cardboard box over them, if nights ever dip into the 30s.
All the peppers in the world are perennials and can live for years to decades, when protected from cold, and only die when hit by frost.
The Wild Chile Botanical Area in the Coronado National Forest near Tucson, Arizona, has the largest population of chiltepín chile peppers in the United States. In 1997, Texans named the Tepín "the official native pepper of Texas,” two years after making the Jalapeño Texas' official pepper.
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