[Sca-cooks] Gorditas was New snack treat OT OP

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Mirhaxa wrote:
>On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
>  > There are plenty of the usual Norte?o style restaurants around here. It's
>  > affordable and edible, and sometimes even good, but kinda tiresome. It's
>  > what's usual in California, and, i assume most points east. So 
>i'm always on
>  > the look out for something actually Mexican (even if "nuevo") and 
>regionally
>  > specific.
>
>Way behind, but just a note. While almost none of it is actually
>"Mexican", the Mexican foods of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas
>are all quite distinctly different from one another.

Oh, indeed. By points east, i was thinking... Chicago, New York

My experiences there make it clear that New Mexico very much has its 
own very old culinary traditions.
-- 
Someone sometimes called Urtatim