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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Texas could have probably been its own country if it had wanted to. I think that Sam Houston & Davy Crockett & those guys wanted to join the U.S. It couldn't be a country now, of course, because Abraham Lincoln unilaterally decided that states can't withdraw from the Union, even if they joined voluntarily (no, I'm not an Abraham Lincoln fan).
I really can understand why Texas might not be included in Southern cookbooks. The food in the eastern part of the state definitely reflects Southern influence (how can it not, being smack dab next to Louisiana and Arkansas?), but it quickly becomes less and less Southern-like the further west in Texas that you go.
There must be widespread ignorance about what we call the "real Florida." The chefs and cooks who write the cookbooks probably don't travel anywhere in the interior of the state to know what exists here--they just know Palm Beach/Miami/Miami Beach and maybe Orlando. Maybe I can compile a Florida cookbook and make millions of $$$ . . . .
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I will be your first customer. Although there are probably already a dozen Florida cookbooks.
Though if you check your history books, you will discover that Texas only rejoined the Union with the caveat that we could leave again if so desired.