Always a musician's musician due to his aptitude for blending his sound a mixture of Tex Mex, blues, surf-rock, jazz and country Cooder appears comfortable in any project he attempts.
The border might be a four-hour drive south, but this is where Tex and Mex collide.
Tex-Mex food, with its heavier sauces, is closer to the popular idea of Mexican food.
The CIA aims to survive its challenging acronym and help steer Tex-Mex street food beyond the Taco Bell strip-malls.
But look and listen more closely and you'll spot the Tex-Mex cultural collisions.
And the Tex-Mex diet has contributed to a thirty-eight-per-cent obesity rate.
Around the time her marriage ended in 2010, Ms. Longoria launched her own production company, perfume line, her Los Angeles restaurant called Beso ("kiss" in Spanish) and a cookbook filled with her Tex-Mex favorites.
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Proponents of the new measure say that the cost of living in Santa Fe is a fifth above the national average (blame all those pastel Tex-Mex bars and overpriced Hopi sofa-throws), but wages are 18% below it.
There's only one place to go for the fully evolved Tex-Mex genus: across town to Mi Tierra, more of a civic institution than a restaurant, run by the same family since 1941 and currently putting sauce-rimmed smiles on over a million faces a year.
Further afield in Seattle where chains are also now required to display calories (the practice also spread to California), a study of 37 sit-down and quick service burger, pizza, sandwich, and Tex-Mex chains in the area found fast-food entrees contained about 19 less calories only 18 months after the regulation was implemented.
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