Great new documentary tells the Texas-Mexico border food story. Whet your appetite with an insiders look at how South Texas cooking is done; streaming on most major services.
Really enjoyed this! I have one comment about a premise in the film; that women do not get the credit they deserve for creating this cuisine. I agree, that the uninitiated make this mistake. As a native San Antonian I cannot remember a single instance growing up where my or my friends fathers were in the kitchen cooking; backyard maybe, at the pit. One of the best parts of growing up was being fed outstanding Texas-Mexican cooking whenever you set foot in a friend’s house. You could taste the love these women had for their families, and their friends. Always mutual!
I would argue that the premise is appropriate when speaking to the way the food is represented in the mass media; usually explained by male chefs, perhaps some lucky enough to have learned from their mothers and grandmothers. Austin360 published an article that serves nicely as a lead-in to the film; link below. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Truly Texas Mexican
(14)1 h 26 min202113+
Over time and during conquest, “comida casera,” home cooking of Texas Mexican families sustained indigenous identity and memory. Cooking deer, cactus and tortillas, women led the cultural resistance against colonization. This road movie weaves through Texas cities, names the racism that erased Native American history. It celebrates a new type of encounter, one with a table where All are welcome.
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