Ask a Mexican! What kind of abomination is Tex-Mex?
Q Dear Mexican: I was born in beautiful El Paso, and my parents are from Juaritos. I always wondered why Mexican restaurants en los Estados Unidos use queso Amarillo — which I associate with los Estados Unidos — on their food instead of queso Asadero or queso Oaxaca, which taste so much better. And who came up with Tex-Mex or New Mexican food names? —El Minero de AlbuquerqueA Dear Albuquerque Miner: Silly chuco! You and your ilk are so advanced in the Reconquista que se le olvidan that most non-Latinos still don’t know Spanglish! So, before I answer tu pregunta, a translation note for non-wabs: “Juaritos” is a nickname for Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, “queso Amarillo” is “yellow cheese,” a “chuco” is someone from El Paso, and “los Estados Unidos” means “E.E.U.U.”On to the question — although the Mexican is all-knowing, he also knows when others know more, you know? And so I forwarded your query to Robb Walsh, food editor for the Houston Press, author of “The Tex-Mex Cookbook,” one of the mos
