American Southwest Food. Search. Click to view full Infographic. Southwestern cuisine was created at the confluence of Spanish, Mexican, and Native American cultures, which took place especially in the region of New Mexico, but also in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and California.he natives cultivated chiles, corn, tomatoes, beans, avocados, and squash, which have been incorporated into the cuisine of the American Southwest. The Spanish brought ingredients from their homeland, including cheese, lard, and rice.
tarpon. n, pl-pons or-pon. 1. (Animals) a large silvery clupeoid game fish, Tarpon atlanticus, of warm Atlantic waters, having a compressed body covered with large scales: family Elopidae. 2. (Animals) Austral another name for ox-eye herring. 3. (Animals) any similar related fish.
Tarpon, bonefish, ladyfish and eels all undergo a similar leptocephalus stage, but the first three fish all have forked tails even at the larval state, whereas the eel does not. Tarpon grow rather slowly and usually don't reach maturity until they are six or seven years old and about 4 ft (1.2 m) long. Fishing methods are still fishing with live mullet, pinfish, crabs, shrimp, etc., or casting or trolling with spoons, plugs, or other artificial lures.