My father, David Alan Atchison, was born in 1940 in Missouri, the land of Mark Twain, Josephine Baker, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Walt Disney, Harry Truman, Chuck Berry and later, Maya Angelou. When he was 10 years old, his family left the farm and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Dad's love-language was cooking, and his childhood in New Mexico spawned a deep love of New Mexican and Mexican food, the Spanish language, and later, Spanish literature. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes endured as his favourite novel, and we grew up with art, books and wooden sculptures of Don Quijote and Sancho Panza around our home. Sancho Panza, his faithful sidekick, is the character after whom SANCHO taqueria & tequileria is named.
 

In 1965, David Alan Atchison from New Mexico, USA met Nessie Jean McKay from NSW, Australia. They married in Albuquerque and honeymooned in Santa Fe. The food, the music and the language of New Mexico seduced Mum. Since her love affair with New Mexico, its colour, music and food have always been staples in our family life. Mum's sopaipilla recipe is the first item on our SANCHO menu.
 

SANCHO is a much smaller place than its sibling venues, Farmhouse Kedron or Oh Boy, Bok Choy!, but it was a story worth telling; one of the great stories of my life. I hope you can come and share in it with us. SANCHO taqueria & tequileria is an ode to my parents' love of New Mexican food, the Chihuahuan Desert, the Sandia Mountains and their sunsets, and to the cross-cultural rivers where streams of music, language, people and flavours flow together.

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