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Naked Chefs in Santa Fe

Or how I fulfilled my fantasies for less than $20 dollars

By Madelyn Miller

Some people follow sports teams around the globe. Other people go nuts over rock stars. Give me a chef anytime. Is there anything sexier than a chef whipping something up? Warming buns in the oven?

I fantasize being able to lick the bowl. Being the muse for a chef’s chocolate dessert.

So when I found out my fantasies would now be available for unlimited gazing for less than two dollars a month, I was as excited as a football fan finding out he could watch his team on cable TV.

If the chefs were all going to be wearing their birthday suits to the launch party, I would cancel all my travel plans and be there. Instead, I will have to stick to one fantasy a month, as I turn the pages of the Naked Chefs of Santa Fe calendar.

THE CHEFS OF SANTA FE COOK IN THE RAW – AND POSE IN IT, TOO – IN REVELATORY NEW CALENDAR FOR 2005

After a smashing debut in Taos last year, the fabulously popular Cooking in the Raw calendar featuring area chefs at their best -- and barest -- is back this year and taking Santa Fe, New Mexico by storm. The Chefs of Santa Fe - Cooking in the Raw is an artistic calendar with a style as vivacious, provocative and alluring as the soul of the southwest itself.

Thirteen of Santa Fe most desirable culinary artisans -- including Louis Moscow (Bistro 315), Martin Rios (The Old House), Mu Ju Ling (Mud u Noodles) and Tom Kerpon (The Inn of Anasazi) -- bare their most tempting recipes as well as their intimate selves in a stimulating full-size calendar of stunning black & white photographs created by acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Judy Walgren.

The Chefs of Santa Fe - Cooking in the Raw is produced by the Taos School of Cooking. “The design of the Calendar is classy and appealing, with exuberant photographs that are as tasteful and innovative as the food itself,” says the School’s Director, Lisa Cancro. “You can definitely spot the inspiration of each chef’s unique personality.”

The creation of this calendar is intended to promote Santa Fe’s exceptional chefs and their restaurants.  Two pages of the calendar will be devoted to each chef, including a charismatic photograph, chef’s choice recipe, restaurant logo and, of course, the month.  I wonder if I have to limit my gazes at my favorite chefs for only a month? I will no longer be frustrated if they are busy in the kitchen, or off the night I am dining—because I will have my own personal nude calendar. What, I wonder, should I wear while I am turning the pages?

An excellent assortment of Santa Fe’s finest and most hip restaurants are featured, including The Pink Adobe, Ristra, Bistro 315, Fuego at La Posada, Eat Me Foods, La Posada, Mu du Noodles, and more.  

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