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Coahuila
Life and food in the dessert, across the Rio Grande from Texas
Coahuila is an expansive northern Mexican state with striking desert landscapes and a rich winemaking and ranching traditions. Sharing a border along the Rio Grande, Texas and Coahuila’s cuisines share roots in rancho culture. Coahuila’s culinary footprint is defined by ranching and wheat fields with staples like machaca, cabrito, flour tortillas and gorditas, nopales and prickly pear, pecans, and sweets and cheeses made from goat’s milk.
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Coahuila
Life and food in the dessert, across the Rio Grande from Texas Coahuila is an expansive northern Mexican state with striking desert landscapes and a rich winemaking and ranching traditions. Sharing a border along the Rio Grande, Texas and Coahuila’s cuisines share roots in rancho culture. Coahuila’s culinary footprint is defined by ranching and wheat […]
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Mexico City
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Texas
Shares the longest border with Mexico of any of the U.S. border states and home to Tex-Mex cuisine
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Sonora
Known as “Mexico’s great frontier” for its ruggedly beautiful desert landscape, cattle ranches, wheat fields, and at the heart of its cuisine is carne asada
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Oaxaca
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Pati's Mexican Table
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Pati's Mexican Table
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Pati's Mexican Table
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