Step into the serene world of Bear Mountain Lodge with this one-of-a-kind cookbook that blends unforgettable recipes, rich storytelling, and stunning Southwestern art. Whether you’ve visited the Lodge or are discovering it for the first time, this book invites you to experience its magic from your own kitchen.
Featuring guest-favorite dishes like tortilla soup, granola, and ginger scones, each recipe comes with easy-to-follow instructions and ingredients that are likely already in your pantry. Designed to be both beautiful and practical, the cookbook lies flat and includes wipe-clean pages—ready for real use.
More than a collection of recipes, this book shares the stories behind the meals, the history of the Lodge, and projects like One Million Bones that have left a lasting mark on the land and its visitors. Illustrated with vibrant photos of the food, the art, and the surrounding landscape, it’s part cookbook, part keepsake, and part travelogue.
Whether you cook from it, display it, or gift it, this is a book full of joy, memory, and inspiration.
Linda Brewer grew up on a farm in southern Ohio. Her life has been defined by land and animals since the beginning. She has had a long career as a potter, who specializes in animal sculpture.
Thirty years ago, Linda moved to New Mexico with her partner John Rohovec, a native New Mexican. She immediately bought a horse to explore the area. She found she was living in the best horse country imaginable. She and John opened Blue Dome Gallery, then 10 years ago with a group, bought Bear Mountain Lodge in Silver City. They expanded the Bear Mountain Lodge to include a cafe, gallery, outside sculpture walk, and opened the trails to the public. They have horses, cows, chickens and dogs in addition to all the wildlife on the property that borders the Gila National Forest. Her other passion is Mongolia (can’t go wrong with a country where the animals out number the people.) New Mexico and Mongolia face many of the same issues of land use, population, and tourism.
