Lecture 31: Immigrant Cuisines and Ethnic Restaurants
with salt or maybe egg. Now, there are many types of bagels,
including cinnamon raisin, chocolate, whole wheat, and all sorts of
bizarre fl avors.Mexican Food
The story of Mexican immigration is unique, partly because many of
the people didn’t immigrate. Instead, the United States swallowed a
huge chunk of what was once part of Mexico: the entire Southwest,
California, and Texas. There was later immigration also—partly in
the form of migrant labor, but also in the form of a lot of people
who came looking for jobs, not always permanently. The cuisine of Mexico is extremely varied and very different from
what Americans think of as Mexican, which is largely the cuisine of
the border regions, or even Tex-Mex. The remarkable thing about
this cuisine is that it gained a wide following. Salsa, tortilla chips,Mexican cuisine drastically changed after it was introduced to the United States.© iStockphoto/Thinkstock.