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5 pages. This paper gives a historical account of how some of the southwestern states including Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Nevada obtained their unique culinary tastes and own kinds of foods and how to serve them. Such diverse things as the weather, topography, economics and industry helped shape what these states are still eating today. This is an interesting paper that gives an excellent background on why we are what we eat. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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tastes and own kinds of foods and how to serve them. Such diverse things as the weather, topography, economics and industry helped shape what these states are still eating
today. This is an interesting paper that gives an excellent background on why we are what we eat. THE HISTORY OF THE STATE CUISINES Most of us
are familiar with southwestern fare but not all of us know why it varies so from state to state. This all has to do with the history, industry, agriculture,
economic conditions and just about every outside influence one can think of as to how and why certain foods came to be known as belonging to certain states. All of
us know about the hot peppers of Mexican and New Mexican food. The chilis, cayenne peppers, chipotl peppers and more are all used to spice and season these tasty
but fiery concoctions. Some of the basic ingredients to be found in every New Mexican dish are the corn or flour tortilla, hot sauce, pinto beans, to name just
a few. In the days of the Native Americans their primary agricultural crop was corn. Because the Pueblo Indians were not, for the most part, hunters, they relied on
crops for their food. Therefore their staples were always corn and beans. The Corn was used in many ways, usually ground into a flour and made into tortillas
and filled with beans, rice, and for the seasoning those fiery hot peppers. Because meat was not a staple in their diet their main source of protein was through
the bean dishes they consumed. Theirs was an economically poor background, if one could call it that. They might have lacked in money and industry but that does not
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