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Synopsis: Trailer | Over time and during conquest, Texas Mexican food (not tex-mex) sustained Native American memory and identity. Cooking nopalitos, deer, mesquite and tortillas, indigenous women led the cultural resistance against colonization. Chefs, artists and community leaders in San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Brownsville and other cities share intimate food experiences that shape who they are today, prevailing over a history of discrimination, dispossession and violence.
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A collection of more than two hundred treasured family recipes and the stories behind them, Cocina de la Familia is a celebration of Mexican-American home cooking, culture, and family values.
Los Barrios Family Cookbook offers the best of Tex-Mex cooking and dozens of family recipes, many of which have been handed down through the generations.
Hecho en Tejas is a historic anthology that establishes the canon of Mexican American literature in Texas. Hecho en Tejas is a mosaic portrait of the community, the land and its history, its people's sorrows and joys, anger and humor and pride, what has been assimilated and what will not be.
Acclaimed author/actress Denise Chávez explores the history, lore, and preparation of tacos and other art forms in a warm and exuberant memoir, with recipes.
Planet Taco asks the question, "what is authentic Mexican food?" The burritos and taco shells that many people think of as Mexican were actually created in the United States, and Americanized foods have recently been carried around the world in tin cans and tourist restaurants.
Authors Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel are life partners; when Luz was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, they both radically changed their diets and began seeking out recipes featuring healthy, vegetarian South American foods (Luz's cancer is now in remission). Includes 120 + recipes and full-color photography throughout.
This collection of new essays offers groundbreaking perspectives on the ways that food and foodways serve as an element of decolonization in Mexican-origin communities.Throughout, we witness the shifting mosaic of Mexican-origin foods and foodways in the fields, gardens, and kitchen tables from Chiapas to Alaska.
In Voices in the Kitchen, Meredith E. Abarca features the voices of her mother and several other family members and friends, seated at their kitchen tables, to share the grassroots world view of these working-class Mexican and Mexican American women.
In the vision of artist Rolando Briseño, food is a powerful metaphor, a way of understanding how culture nurtures the spirit. Now, editor Norma E. Cantú has gathered the art, along with the words of fifteen poets, writers, artists, and scholars who reflect in various ways on the layers of interpretation to be derived from Briseño's works.
Blood Oranges traces the origins and legacy of racial differences between Anglo Americans and ethnic Mexicans (Mexican nationals and Mexican Americans) in the South Texas borderlands in the twentieth century.
The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging.
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Presented by: Food Justice Film Festival 2021
Summary: An in-depth interview with the executive producer, writer, and author of Truly Texas Mexican (2021) on the trajectory of colonization, embracing traditional cooking, food activism, the connection of food to the land, and more.
Series: Cooking in America S2 E3
Summary: Host Sheldon Simeon does some mescal shots, rolls tortillas, and lights stuff on fine with charismatic chef Alex Padilla, who runs the show at Houston institution Ninfa’s.
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Summary: El Paso Food Voices is a collection of food stories gathered from home cooks, professional chefs, restaurant owners, community educators, and others from across El Paso, Texas.
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Summary: In his new podcast Mando talks Texas taqueros, tortilleras & makers, explores food cultures and engages lovers of tacos on topics like the rise of Tex-Mex BBQ, the West Texas origins of the Discada and other true taco stories.