Recipe Demonstrated By Jesse Sanchez Of La Calle Doce
Jesse Sanchez loves the restaurant business. It's a family thing.
Back in 1981, his brother-in-law Oscar Sanchez took over a hard-luck spot in Oak Cliff that even the Cuellar family of El Chico fame couldn't conquer. Almost 30 years later, La Calle Doce is still going strong. Jesse runs the Mexican seafood restaurant's second location in Lakewood, younger sib to the original on 12th Street. Newly renovated and redecorated, the neighbor
​We Texans love our "Mexican" food. That is, we love flour tortillas filled with breast meat and corn chips dipped in processed cheese. Who wouldn't? Except, as we all know, that's not really Mexican, now is it? (And sometimes, as our own Chris Meesey would point out, the concoctions we adore aren't even really Tex-Mex.)
At any rate, several restaurants--new and not-so-new--are tempting those willing to step away from the comfort of the combo plate. From Central American home cooking to
​On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Puerto de Veracruz is a bustling metropolis of half-a-million located on the Gulf of Mexico. Its rich history stretches
back to Pre-Columbian times, and it is sometimes called The Four Times
Heroic City after resisting two invasions from the United States and two
from France. One of the French invasions is known today as The Pastry War--what else would the French fight over?--and occurred when a French chef had
