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There are many types of Mexican food. Tacos, burritos and salsa are the most widely known in the United States.
Mexican cooking was of course still practiced in what is now the Southwest United States after the MexicanâAmerican War, but Diana Kennedy, in her book The Cuisines of Mexico (published in 1972), drew a sharp distinction between Mexican food and Tex-Mex.he cuisine of Veracruz is a mix of indigenous, Afro-Mexican and Spanish. The indigenous contribution is in the use of corn as a staple as well as vanilla (native to the state), and herbs called acuyo and hoja santa.