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Poster art
This isn t Tex-Mex but the
comida casera or the home cooking of many Texas Mexican American families, says executive producer Medrano, who occasionally writes about food for the
Houston Press.
Truly Texas Mexican begins with San Antonio s Chili Queens who in the 1880s made the city a food destination for tourists.
According to a press release about the documentary:
Racism and discrimination closed down their businesses, and the film proceeds to show contemporary women chefs in kitchens and restaurants following in their footsteps, not just preserving but advancing the native culinary traditions.
Also, director Aníbal Capoano and cinematographer Gabriel Bendahan, both from Uruguay, filmed the practice of buying a cow s head in the ground for overnight cooking. Women took the lead in keeping traditions alive and it’s really about resistance to colonization,” said Virginia Diaz-Laughlin, the producer, who lives in Houston
Austin 360
Nopales, venison and mesquite are as much a part of the foodways of Texas as tacos, tamales and tortillas.
Food is where Adán Medrano s new documentary starts, but the film, Truly Texas Mexican, which launched on Amazon Prime this week, weaves through history, archaeology, feminism and spirituality, leaving viewers with a deeper understanding of Texas-Mexico history, which typically skips over the first 10,000 years of the region.
Food history in Texas often leaves out the voices of women and immigrants, too, says Medrano, a San Antonio native who grew up in Houston, went to graduate school in Austin and lived all over South America and Europe for a former job in philanthropy.