Those with more contemporary tastes can try the prickly pear margarita or local brews Marble IPA and Santa Fe Nut Brown.

BBC: A hospital turned hotel in New Mexico

We hear so much about the dangers of skin cancer, or the more mundane problem of wrinkles and skin deterioration, that it almost seems hard to believe anybody would have a real nut-brown year-round tan, says Mary Killen, who writes the Spectator's Dear Mary column.

BBC: Can a fake tan ever be classy?

The obsession of the novel's characters with degrees of skin colour, or the lack thereof, threatens to force the heroine, a near-white black, to call off her planned marriage to a white jazz musician and instead to encourage the crude advances of a nut-brown man with three daughters.

ECONOMIST: Dorothy West