Blog Posts About Casa Navarro State Historic Site

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...

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...

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...

By Nano Calderon, Casa Navarro Site Educator

The peach tree at Casa Navarro State Historic Site produced a wonderful and tasty abundance of fruit that was enjoyed by site visitors, neighbors, and wildlife in downtown San Antonio. By the end of June, most of the fruit was gone, but we saved a few dozen peaches to try a recipe from the UTSA Libraries Mexican Cookbook Collection.

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