Crossword clues for tex-mex
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1914, from Texas + Mexico. An earlier noun for "Texan of Mexican background" was Texican (1863).
Wikipedia
Tex-Mex (from Texan and Mexican) is a term describing a fusion of United States cuisine and Mexican cuisine, deriving from the culinary creations of Tejanos. It has spread from border states such as Texas and others in the Southwestern United States to the rest of the country as well as Canada. Tex-Mex is most popular in the state of Texas.
Though Tex-Mex is often conflated with the Southwest cuisine found in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah; they are not synonymous.
Tex-Mex is a regional American cuisine that blends food products available in the United States and the culinary creations of Mexican-Americans influenced by the cuisines of Mexico.
Tex Mex may also refer to:
- Tex-Mex music, another name for Tejano music, folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas
- Texas Mexican Railway, often referred to as the "Tex-Mex Railway"
- Spanglish, a language blending formed of Spanish and English that is called "Tex-Mex" by some Texans
- Tex-Mex (album), an album by Freddy Fender
Tex-Mex is a 1979 Tejano album by Freddy Fender.
Usage examples of "tex-mex".
Francis favored the Tex-Mex restaurant across the Freeway on Kingwood avenue.
Karen said was Hollywood, with Aaron Pursley himself, in a Tex-Mex restaurant on North Flores Street.
We passed a restaurant and a combination news and gift shop selling hard- and paperback books, glossy magazines, newspapers, Texas barbecue sauces, Tex-Mex cookbooks, and T-shirts with Texas logos.