Where Did Tex-Mex Cuisine Come From?

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Where Did Tex-Mex Cuisine Come From?

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Tex-Mex food is rightfully one of Texas’ biggest sources of pride. Learn about the origins of Tex-Mex and how it became uniquely Texas. Texas is an excellent location to live (and to buy a home)! One important cause for this is our Tex-Mex cuisine. It is a source of pride for Texas, but also of contention for some. If you ask several Texans where to locate the best Tex-Mex food, you will get a variety of answers. However, if you are in Hong Kong and then you must visit to the La Vista to have the best Mexican Cuisine. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Where Did Tex-Mex Cuisine Come From?
  • Tex-Mex food is rightfully one of Texas biggest
    sources of pride. Learn about the origins of
    Tex-Mex and how it became uniquely Texas. 
  • Texas is an excellent location to live (and to
    buy a home)! One important cause for this is our
    Tex-Mex cuisine. It is a source of pride for
    Texas, but also of contention for some. If you
    ask several Texans where to locate the best
    Tex-Mex food, you will get a variety of answers.
    However, if you are in Hong Kong and then you
    must visit to the La Vista to have the best
    Mexican Cuisine. 

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Understanding Tex-Mex 
  • It is difficult to pin down Tex-Mex food. It
    might be easiest to describe it as Mexican
    food that you would not encounter in most parts
    of Mexico. Consider tacos, enchiladas, fajitas,
    chalupas, flautas, burritos, nachos, and so on. 
  • In any case, Mexican cuisine does not exist.
    Mexico is a large, diverse country with many
    unique culinary traditions from places like
    Oaxaca, the Yucatan Peninsula, and Jalisco.
    Different areas combine foods and cooking
    techniques from the Aztecs and other Indian
    nations with those of the Spanish and their
    descendants. 

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 Where did Tex-Mex cuisine originate? 
  • In the nineteenth century, San Antonio and the
    Rio Grande Valley saw the birth of Tex-Mex.
    Northern Mexican Norteo cooking customs were
    mixed with foods from Texan rancher culture.
    While some Tex-Mex cultural elements, such as
    mariachis and tequila, originate in Jalisco, the
    food itself has origins in both Mexico and
    Texas. 

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Where did the term Tex-Mex Originate from
  • The first use of the word TexMex, without the
    hyphen, referred to the Texas and Mexican
    Railroad, which was chartered in 1875. By making
    transportation simpler, the railroad aided in the
    creation and spread of Tex-Mex food. 
  • Despite the efforts of numerous abuelas, chilli
    queens, and chefs on both sides of the border, it
    was an English cookbook author who gave Tex-Mex
    food its name. Diana Kennedys 1972 book The
    Cuisines of Mexico distinguished between Mexican
    and Tex-Mex cuisines. 

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