Tex-Mex
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Tex-Mex cuisine, or New Tejano cuisine, or simply Tejano cuisine is a regional American cuisine that originates from the culinary creations of Tejano people inspired in Mexican culinary traditions. It
Examples of modern Tex-Mex dishes and ingredients including corn, tortilla chips, cheese, tacos, salsa, chilis, and beef dishes
Preparing plates of tortillas and fried beans to sell to pecan shellers in San Antonio, Texas, photographed by Russell Lee in March 1939
A bowl of chili served with traditional garnishes and tortilla chips
Fajitas, wheat tortillas used as taco wraps
Tejanos
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Tejanos are descendants of mostly Native Americans and Spanish settlers, but also Texas Creoles and Mestizos who settled in Texas before its admission as an American state. The term is also sometimes
Tex-Mex
…words Texas and Mexico), or New Tejano cuisine, or simply Tejano cuisine is a regional American cuisine that originates from the culinary creations of Tejano people inspired in Mexican culinary traditions. It has spread from border states such as Texas and others in the Southwestern United States to the rest…
Tejanos (1859)
Ranchero de Texas (1828). Tejano vaqueros were very different from the Mexican vaqueros of central Mexico, both in their costumes and customs. Tejanos were very humble in their dress; their saddles, while being Mexican in origin, were rough and heavy and lacked the finesse of the central Mexico saddles. This changed once Mexican traditions were adopted by the Tejanos.
Spanish Creoles from Texas
Juan Seguín, Tejano leader of the Texas Revolution and statesman in the Republic of Texas