Tex-Mex

1875

And after the movie came out, everybody in Paris wanted a shot of tequila and a bowl of chili." Tex-Mex has also spread to Argentina, India, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Thailand. ==Terminology== The word "TexMex" (unhyphenated) was first used to abbreviate the Texas Mexican Railway, chartered in southern Texas in 1875.

1905

Adán Medrano, a chef who grew up in San Antonio, prefers to call the food "Texas Mexican," which he says was the indigenous cooking of South Texas long before the Rio Grande marked the border between Texas and Mexico. == Influential chefs == Felix Tijerina was a successful restaurateur and civic leader who helped pioneer the Tex-Mex cuisine through his dishes. Born in 1905, Tijerina began working as a busboy at the Original Mexican Restaurant after moving to Houston in 1922.

1922

Adán Medrano, a chef who grew up in San Antonio, prefers to call the food "Texas Mexican," which he says was the indigenous cooking of South Texas long before the Rio Grande marked the border between Texas and Mexico. == Influential chefs == Felix Tijerina was a successful restaurateur and civic leader who helped pioneer the Tex-Mex cuisine through his dishes. Born in 1905, Tijerina began working as a busboy at the Original Mexican Restaurant after moving to Houston in 1922.

1929

He rose through the ranks and opened his own restaurant, the Mexican Inn, in 1929. After serving in World War II, Tijerina opened a chain of restaurants named the Felix Mexican Restaurant. With mildly-spiced dishes and reasonable prices, Tijerina’s restaurants catered more towards an Anglo audience.

1960

vernacular during the late 1960s, '70s, and '80s.

1968

side. A 1968 Los Angeles Times feature wrote "[i]f the dish is a combination of Old World cooking, hush-my-mouth Southern cuisine and Tex-Mex, it's from the Texas Hill Country." === Outside the US === In France, Paris's first Tex-Mex restaurant opened in March 1983.

1970

It unified Mexican cooking by transcending the nation's class divisions and treating the food of the poor with the same respect as the food of the upper classes." The term "Tex-Mex" also saw increasing usage in the Los Angeles Times from the 1970s onward while the Tex-Mex label became a part of U.S.

1983

side. A 1968 Los Angeles Times feature wrote "[i]f the dish is a combination of Old World cooking, hush-my-mouth Southern cuisine and Tex-Mex, it's from the Texas Hill Country." === Outside the US === In France, Paris's first Tex-Mex restaurant opened in March 1983.

1986

According to restaurateur Claude Benayoun, business had been slow, but after the 1986 release of the film Betty Blue, which featured characters drinking tequila shots and eating chili con carne, "everything went crazy." According to Benayoun, "Betty Blue was like our Easy Rider; it was unbelievably popular in France.

2010

Monday 14 June 2010. Texan cuisine American cuisine Cuisine of the Southwestern United States Mexican-American cuisine Mexican cuisine

2019

While the New Yorker listed Centeno’s Amá: a modern Tex-Mex kitchen as one of the best cookbooks in 2019, the LA Times named Orsa & Winston as the  “Restaurant of the Year” in 2020.

2020

While the New Yorker listed Centeno’s Amá: a modern Tex-Mex kitchen as one of the best cookbooks in 2019, the LA Times named Orsa & Winston as the  “Restaurant of the Year” in 2020.




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