Georgia Salles works the dough for a piece of frybread Thursday at Zina’s Blue Corn Cafe in Indian Village at the New Mexico State Fair grounds on the fair’s opening day. Lawmakers earlier this year approved a new board that is considering ways to redevelop the site where the fair occurs now, potentially moving the fair from its home for 87 years. (Photo by Patrick Lohmann / Source NM)
Zina Crum was already feeling sentimental when she opened up Zina’s Blue Corn Cafe on Thursday morning for the opening day of the New Mexico State Fair —even with 10 days left.
She’s run the restaurant during the fair for the last 23 years, she told Source New Mexico between Navajo Taco and frybread orders. Moving the fair from its home for the last 87 years, which a newly created board is now considering, could mean fewer local vendors and less New Mexico flavor, she said…