At 06:20 PM 5/13/98 -0400, Mark Gelo wrote: >We do like to think we have some of the best of everything. But maybe New >Mexico has an edge on us on Mexican food. (Even possibly Texas.) > >Mark Being a veteran eater in northern New Mexico, southern Arizona and southern Texas, I'll suggest that there are mighty tasty dishes in all these places that reflect the foods of Mexico, with local influences, but that there is no local food that could represent "Mexican" any more than there could be a representive "French" or "Italian" type of cooking in any one place in this country. Whew! That was a long sentence, but I'll stick with it. David