There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
We Houstonians are a spicy lot. We raise our babies with tongues of fire, mostly lit by chips and salsa. Our blood is as thick and warm as queso.
I'm from Texas.
Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.
Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.
I had never been to Texas. I'd been through Texas, but I'm so glad to be back in a place that's not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, it's rich and saturated in American-ness.
I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family.
I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.
I'm just a kid from El Paso, Texas.
I lived in Texas for 10 years.
I was washing dishes at Del Frisco's Grille and busing tables at a Tex-Mex place and writing songs the whole time. I did a lot of my writing at those jobs, thinking up melodies in my head.
I love working in Texas anywhere.
Saying you're from Texas makes you kind of proud.
The thing about Texas is that it's a little larger than life.
I don't care if I never see Texas again.
I love cooking fajitas. I'm from Texas, and it's not a difficult thing to do, but a lot of people burn the chicken.
I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.
Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!
There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!
I'm a Texas girl.
