Inspirations - Inspired Tex-Mex Fiesta
Texican. Tejano. Tex-Mex. Throughout its complex history, the blending of Mexican and Anglo cultures and traditions has gone by different names. Although the worldwide explosion of Tex-Mex cooking — which has made tacos and chili con carne easy to find almost anywhere — is a 20th-century phenomenon, Tex-Mex cooking has roots stretching back several centuries.
During the 1700s, Spanish missionaries to what would become Mexico and Texas incorporated into their European cookery many ingredients they found in the New World — corn, beans, squash, and peppers. The resulting hybrid cuisine became the basis for the fusion of flavors we call Tex-Mex. |
