Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 11:30am
Join Casa Navarro State Historic Site Manager Georgia Ruiz Davis as she discusses the legacy of Jose Francisco Ruiz, an important figure in Texas history. She is joined by author Art Martinez de Vara, who has produced the first full-length biography about Ruiz.
Ruiz is best known as one of two Tejano signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
Born in San Antonio de...
Monday, October 12, 2020 - 3:54pm
On October 8, 2020, Casa Navarro State Historic Site hosted a virtual discussion between site manager Georgia Ruiz Davis and author Andrés Reséndez. They discussed Reséndez's book, A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca.
This work combines scholarship with adventure in a narrative account of explorer Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s disastrous expedition to Florida in...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 - 4:37pm
Unknown to many visitors, the Casa Navarro State Historic Site was part of a vibrant San Antonio neighborhood that thrived for nearly 100 years after José Antonio Navarro’s death in 1871. Although Navarro’s historic home has seen many residents over the years – most had no idea that it once belonged to the Tejano statesman.
San Antonio was a boomtown when Navarro had his home built in...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 - 8:00am
By Emiliano “Nano” Calderon, Casa Navarro Site Educator
In 2017, Casa Navarro State Historic Site hosted a series of Make Your Own Mole workshops that built off previous historic foodways programs. Mole is a rich sauce in Mexican cuisine that is traditionally prepared during the holidays. The 2014 Mole Navarro workshop featured a mole cooking demonstration and a presentation on the...
Thursday, August 3, 2017 - 8:00am
By Emiliano “Nano” Calderon, Site Educator, Casa Navarro State Historic Site
La Cocina en el Bolsillo is a series of pocket-sized cookbooks published at the turn of the 20th century in Mexico City by Antonio Venegas Arroyo. The multi-volume series is lined with a number of traditional recipes for everything from mole sauces to albondigas fingidas (fake meatballs). The cookbooks were...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 - 11:59am
By Brandon Aniol, Educator, Landmark Inn State Historic Site & Emiliano ‘Nano’ Calderon, Educator, Casa Navarro State Historic Site
Tejanos and European immigrants in Texas used outdoor earthen ovens to bake a variety of foods. Brandon Aniol, Landmark Inn’s site educator and Emiliano, ‘Nano’ Calderon, Casa Navarro’s site educator, set out to successfully build and operate an horno...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 8:00am
By Lester Velazquez-Po, Casa Navarro Customer Service Representative
You may have heard about “corn smut”—a parasitic fungus that attacks corn—impeding the normal growth of the plant and its produce. Predictably, many corn growers worldwide destroy the crops affected by it.
However, this seemingly destructive fungus is actually fit for human consumption. In Mexico, it is known...
Friday, September 18, 2015 - 8:00am
By Georgia Davis, Casa Navarro Site Manager
Have you taken a good look at fake food lately? It’s amazing!
Casa Navarro State Historic Site recently acquired several fake food items for the kitchen exhibit, including six custom-made tamales. They look so realistic we were curious about how they were made, so we asked the premier source for fake food artistry in the country....
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 8:00am
By Nano Calderon, Casa Navarro staff
South Texas is recognized as a culturally and geographically distinct region of the greater Southwest due to its long history as a homeland for indigenous, Spanish, and Mexican populations. Self-sufficient practices have been key to the survival of these populations. At the forefront of these activities were Tejano families living and...
Friday, August 8, 2014 - 10:15am
By Georgia Davis, Casa Navarro Site Manager
Casa Navarro State Historic Site recently hosted Salsa Navarro: Historic Cookbook Recipes in the Modern Kitchen. This event was the site staff’s first effort at engaging the public in historic Tejano gardening and foodways. The goal of the interpretive program was to expose attendees to primary resources in the community and have them...
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