re: Boycott Mexican Restaurants

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TexMex by the way uses Mediterranean Seasoning so what's authentic about it?

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Yes, Tex-Mex uses more cumin that Mexican food. So? Comina esta deliciosa!

Garlic, onion, cumin, ancho y guajillo. Mucho sabor.

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Though chefs and fans of Tex-Mex food were insulted by Kennedy’s characterization (that Tex-Mex was NOT Mexican food), it was her work that popularized the term and put Tex-Mex squarely in its own category as an American cuisine, with its own distinctive flavors. For example, the heavy use of cumin (relative to traditional Mexican cooking) can apparently be traced back to the 1500s, when the Spanish brought workers of Moroccan descent from the Canary Islands to their settlements in the San Antonio region. As a result, Moroccan cooking, with its heavy use of cumin and garlic, became part of the complex and interesting history of Tex-Mex cuisine.

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I am going to say that 500 years is probably enough to call Tex-Mex an "authentic" cuisine of its own. More than 200 years before the Acadians move to Louisiana.