Eating Around Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen
by Whitney Spivey
a popular jewelry line showcases a meaningful local symbol
PEOPLE LOVE THE ZIA SYMBOL. In fact, New Mexico’s state flag was just voted “best in the nation” by USA Today and 10Best.com readers. But why fly a flag in just one spot when you can wear your state pride everywhere you go? Silversmith Gregory Segura allows people to do just that. The owner of Santa Fe Silverworks sells an assortment of Zia jewelry, most of which is purchased, somewhat surprisingly, by folks in other parts of the country. “Only about one in 20 is sent to a New Mexico address,” he says. “I’ve sent them all over the world.” Segura’s most popular item is a Zia pendant, but he says his earrings do well, too. The Santa Fe native also crafts Zia rings, bolos, lapel pins, and cuff links, all of which are available online, at his Second Street studio, and at various locations around town, including Ortega’s on the Plaza and the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art. The Zia symbol has roots in Zia Pueblo, whose people consider the sun sacred. Not only is the symbol reminiscent of that ball of fire high in the sky, but its four clusters of four rays are significant because the number four is sacred as well (there are four points on a compass, four seasons of the year, four periods of the day, four seasons of life, four sacred obligations in life, and so on). The circle—or, in Segura’s case, a stone—binds those elements of four together and represents the circle of life.
April 23, 1 pm Right, top: Shrimp and grits with green chile, bacon, and a fried egg, $13.
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Right, bottom: Soup and salad combo with a Peas and Love Salad (snap peas, sweet peas, green beans, and lettuce with strawberry vinaigrette) and a cup of turkey tortilla soup with Beneficial Farms turkey, avocado, black beans, corn, and cream, $10.50.
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Santa Fe Silverworks, 505-670-3955, santafesilverworks.com Segura features turquoise—the state stone of New Mexico—in the center of his contemporary Zia symbol earrings ($180–$230) and pendants ($99–$140). He also makes pieces with onyx, lapis, denim lapis, and malachite stones.
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Above, left: White chocolate bread pudding with whiskey sauce, $8. Above, right: Cubana sandwich (seared pork loin, ham, black bean cumin spread, asadero cheese, and chipotle sauce on a telera roll with guacamole, lettuce, and tomato), $14.
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April 24, 12 pm Below: Roasted butternut squash soup with cranberry apple salsa and avocado crema, $8.
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