Meaning of Interior Mexican | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of interior Mexican.
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2. Especially of cuisine: of or pertaining to the country Mexico itself, in contrast to Tex-Mex (“a mix of Texan and Mexican”).
   Texas, US

Examples

“El Alma has definitely earned a regular spot in my Interior Mexican restaurant rotation; I suggest you add it to yours.”

“We also love their cochinita pibil ($11.99), Los Pinos' most traditional Interior Mexican dish. The pork comes out fork-tender with a powerful achiote and garlic kick.”

“Tony likes eating at interior Mexican restaurants because they put white cheese on their tacos, and not yellow cheese.”

“New Mexican merchants, along with interior Mexican merchants, combined to achieve economic dominance of the trade by the early 1840s, and the New Mexican sphere of trading expanded to tributaries throughout the Great American Desert.”

“It [a particular restaurant] received a glowing review in this paper four years ago, but sadly, it's been all but forgotten. With a menu that features true interior Mexican cuisine, as soon as I saw that sopas are a main course rather than an afterthought, I knew the writing was on the wall.”

“You can walk into most "authentic" or "interior" Mexican restaurants in Texas today and order conchita pibil—steamed pork (which, in southern Mexico, is cooked underground in banana leaves) with spiced sauce in a tortilla.”

“El Alma has definitely earned a regular spot in my Interior Mexican restaurant rotation; I suggest you add it to yours.”

“It wasn't until the 1980s, however, that an earnest movement to serve what some called "interior Mexican" food emerged—in other words, Mexican food that hadn't yet penetrated the American market.”

“We also love their cochinita pibil ($11.99), Los Pinos' most traditional Interior Mexican dish. The pork comes out fork-tender with a powerful achiote and garlic kick.”

“Texans go out to a "Mexican restaurant" for "Mexican food," although we know perfectly well that what we want is Tex-Mex, not authentic "Mexican food" as it would be found in Mexico. When Texans want that, they seek a place serving "interior Mexican food" or "Mex-Mex."”

“Fonda San Miguel Restaurant in Austin is a local icon serving interior Mexican food. Over forty years ago, when the restaurant first opened, many Austinites were not familiar with the complex dishes of interior Mexican cuisine. […] There is a large herb and vegetable garden on the restaurant grounds that provides the kitchen not only with many herbs unique to interior Mexican cuisine but also with unique vegetables.”

“The supposed authenticity of interior Mexican cuisine has acquired a degree of prestige the hybrid form of Tex-Mex never achieved, even after some forms of Mexican cooking made their way into the US American mainstream.”

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