By Elvia Verdugo / El Inde On the ground floor of her rustic red brick building, Rosanne Placencia-Knepper carefully adorns her wooden kitchen island with prepped ingredients for this week’s dish–a stuffed beef curry roti. This week’s ingredients include flour, salt, local grass-fed beef and what she calls “the holy trinity of curry,” a mixture…
By Amaris Encinas / El Inde Ken Carr talks with his hands, often, drawing and punctuating the air for emphasis. The 54-year-old oozes confidence and frequently speaks in sarcastic little quips like no one is in on the joke but him, and for the most part, he wants to keep it that way. He rocks…
By Mackenzie Payton / El Inde It’s 6:30 a.m. in the little town of Cave Creek, Arizona, and unlike most preteens his age– Stockton Caswell is ready for chores. Many understand a child’s chores as doing the dishes, taking out the trash, or maybe feeding the family dogs. While feeding Sketch and Gracy, two corgis…
By Emma Brocato / El Inde It was a summer day just like any other: Relentlessly hot in Tucson, but cool on top of Mount Lemmon. When ascending via the Catalina Highway, you’re able to watch the vegetation change along with the topography. The desert scrub gradually turns into pine forest, and the temperature gets…
By Sara Richards / El Inde “Would you like to set off the blast?” Nicholas Carouso, site manager and engineer of the San Xavier mine asks me with a large grin on his face, clearly humored by the confusion on mine. The San Xavier Mine, located 20 minutes from the University of Arizona, is nestled…
