On Food & Culture
The Malt House of San Antonio, Texas was demolished in May, 2018, and it’s a sad story, but I find also an optimistic story. The sad part is that we’ve lost an architectural treasure that the grassroots community strove to preserve. The optimistic part is […]
In a new way of filming food, Texas and Latin American filmmakers band together to lift high and celebrate the historical roots of Texas Native American/Mexican American cuisine. This unique collaboration of Texas filmmakers with Latin American filmmakers began when the director of the documentary, […]
Terroir Shaped San Antonio’s Unique Cuisine by Adán Medrano The cuisine of San Antonio begins 13,500 years ago, when the first settlers arrive from Asia and cook their food around Olmos Dam, San Pedro Park and along the Medina River. The most recent 300 years […]
Poetry and food? Absolutely with Huevos Rancheros. First of all I love Tejano music, Norteño music. It’s just in my blood. Whether I’m driving or at my desk, when I hear a conjunto, a corrido, una polka, I instinctively want to stand up and twist, […]
Texas Mexican Food Event In San Antonio, Texas Texas Mexican food gained fame In 1800s when Texas Mexican business women ran outdoor diners, and their delicious cooking made San Antonio a culinary destination, tourists arriving via railroad. These entrepreneurial women began to be called “chili […]
Chili, the Tex-Mex version, is different from the original “Carne Con Chile.” What’s Carne Con Chile you say? It means “Meat With Chile” and it’s one of the oldest and most common Texas Mexican dishes whose technique is shared with all the other regions of […]
Preceding the release of the book, I was invited to read sections from history, archaeology and recipes. Truly Texas Mexican: A Native Culinary Heritage In Recipes Mi Tierra Mexican Restaurant, Founded in 1941 November 14, 2013 6-9 PM 50 scholars, artists, chefs and activists. San […]
I had a delicious breakfast at El Puesto restaurant in San Antonio, Texas. It is the third in a row of Texas Mexican restaurants, next to each other, in the West side of San Antonio on old US Highway 90. Each of the three restaurants […]
Hello, fellow Vegans, welcome to traditional vegan cuisine, an oft-overlooked dimension of Texas Mexican cuisine. These bean tamales are in every Mexican American home in Texas. Well I can’t make such an absolute statement, but I can say that they were definitely in my home […]
A delicious read, this little book comes out of San Antonio, renowned center of Texas Mexican cuisine. The title is apt and humorously intriguing: “Tamales, Comadres, And The Meaning of Civilization.” A brilliant publishing move by award-winning Bryce Milligan’s WingsPress (www.wingspress.com), this unique and […]