BarkellWH -> RE: emotion in music in general and flamenco in particular (Sep. 12 2013 0:12:57)
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Of course, in Washington DC in the 1950s, no one had heard of such a thing as Mexican food. There are now many Mexican restaurants in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area, but I have yet to come across one that compares with the very best in Arizona and New Mexico. For the most part, they are mediocre. I don't know much about Mexican restaurants in Texas, but then I don't consider Tex-Mex food as real Mexican, although as a regional cuisine it is good in its own right. An interesting phenomenon occurred in the 1980s regarding Mexican food in Washington, DC, and it was a direct result of the Salvadoran refugees who came to the area due to the Central American conflicts at the time. Like immigrant communities everywhere, many Salvadorans opened up restaurants. The problem was, they were not getting many customers because no one knew or had experienced Salvadoran food. So they began advertising their restaurants as serving "Mexican and Salvadoran" food. People began to patronize their restaurants, but it was the "Mexican" that drew them in. I had spent two years assigned to Honduras, whose cuisine is similar to Salvadoran, so I have gone to Salvadoran restaurants for the pupusas, black beans and rice, which are very good. I have to say, however, that their version of Mexican fails to meet the standard. But then that's the opinion of a guy who grew up in Arizona with a mother who lived in Mexico her first sixteen year before coming to the US. Between my mother's Mexican food and the superb restaurants in Arizona, I guess I'm spoiled. Cheers, Bill
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