Native Foods
12 hours-3 days
Cooking time for tubers in an earth oven
1870s
Decade professional hide hunters slaughtered millions of bison
1794
Year of first successful wheat harvest at Mission San José
People have lived in the area we now call Texas for at least 13,000 years and have resourcefully transformed the landscape’s plants and animals into food in all seasons. Early inhabitants hunted mammoth, horses, camels, and the —a much larger forerunner of today’s animal—until the herds were supplanted
