Rancho Cucamonga Will Do Hatch Chile Roast

Patch - The Albertsons in Rancho Cucamonga is planning a one-day chili-roasting event on Aug. 18 to celebrate the beginning of Hatch chili season. The grocer chain is billing the event as its closest chili-roasting to the Redlands-Loma Linda area. Hatch chilies are grown along the Rio Grande in the Hatch Valley area of New Mexico, north of Las Cruces, where they've been holding an annual chili festival since the 1970s.
The 41st Annual Hatch Valley Chile Festival is scheduled Sept. 1 and 2, 2012. The event near Redlands and Loma Linda is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. Saturday Aug. 18 at the Rancho Cucamonga Albertsons, 8850 Foothill Blvd., and it will continue "until supplies last," a spokeswoman for the grocer chain said. Considered New Mexico's preeminent chili pepper, Hatch Chilies are favored across the country in restaurants that serve spicy Southwestern cuisine," Lilia Rodriguez of Albertsons Southern California said in a statement distributed Tuesday. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Rancho Cucamonga Will Do Hatch Chile Roast