Erna Fergusson endeavor—Indian Detour Service. In 1931 Erna Fergusson published her first book "Dancing Gods", which was about Indian ceremonials. Several histories and numerous travel books followed after her success with "Dancing Gods".In her 1934 book, "Mexican Cookbook", Fergusson was perhaps the first to correct the English-speakers notion that "frijoles refritos" meant "refried beans", but the correction never reached the popular consciousness. In 1942 Erna Fergusson helped found the Albuquerque Historical Society. The year after she was awarded as an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of New Mexico. She died in Albuquerque in 1964. Erna Fergusson can be best depicted
Tex-Mex between Mexican cuisine and Americanized Mexican food in her 1972 book "The Cuisines of Mexico". Robb Walsh of the "Houston Press" said the book "was a breakthrough cookbook, one that could have been written only by a non-Mexican. It unified Mexican cooking by transcending the nation's class divisions and treating the food of the poor with the same respect as the food of the upper classes." The term "Tex-Mex" also saw increasing usage in the "Los Angeles Times" from the 1970s onward while the Tex-Mex label became a part of U.S. vernacular during the late 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Tex-Mex