In the lexicon of food, a fajita generically refers to grilled meat served on a flour tortilla with condiments. Popular meats are beef, chicken, pork and shrimp. They are often cooked with onions and bell peppers. Popular condiments are sour cream, guacamole, salsa, pico de gallo, cheese, lettuce, tomato and onion. In restaurants, the fajita meat is traditionally brought to the table sizzling loudly on a metal platter or skillet, with the tortillas and condiments served on the side. A lexicon is a list of words together with additional word-specific information, i. ... Meat is animal tissue (mainly muscle) used as food. ... A staple of Mexican and Central American cuisine, a tortilla is a kind of unleavened bread, made from maize corn or wheat flour. ... A condiment is a garnishment applied to food in the form of a sauce, powder, spread, or similar delivery medium. ... Beef is meat obtained from a bovine. ... Binomial name Gallus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758) A chicken is a type of domesticated bird which is usually raised as a type of poultry. ... Hormel Pork Loin Filets This article is on the meat. ... Superfamilies Alpheoidea Atyoidea Bresilioidea Campylonotoidea Crangonoidea Galatheacaridoidea Nematocarcinoidea Oplophoroidea Palaemonoidea Pandaloidea Pasiphaeoidea Physetocaridoidea Procaridoidea Processoidea Psalidopodoidea Stylodactyloidea True shrimp are small, swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. ... For the parody newspaper, see The Onion. ... Species   (incl. ... This article is about cream, the food item. ... Guacamole Guacamole is an avocado-based relish or dip originating in Mexico. ... Salsa may have one of the following meanings. ... Pico de gallo Pico de gallo is a garnish made from chopped onion, tomato, and chiles (typically serranos or jalapeños). ... Cheese is a solid food made from the curdled milk of various animals—most commonly cows but sometimes goats, sheep, reindeer, and water buffalo. ... Binomial name Lactuca sativa L. Lettuce (Lactuca sativa, Asteraceae) is a temperate plant grown for its leaves, which are used in salads, hamburgers, tacos, and several other dishes. ... Tomato - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

In Spanish, fajita is a form of the word faja which translates to "belt" or "girdle" in English. Butchers along the Texas border with Mexico used the word to refer to the diaphragm muscle of a steer. The cut is known in the US as the skirt steak, and it remains popular for making fajitas. Researchers found references to Hispanic ranch hands eating this cut of beef in a tortilla with condiments as early as the 1930s but the word fajita is not known to have appeared in print until 1975. Fajitas are primarily a Tex-Mex dish. Ninfa Laurenzo (Mama Ninfa), a well-known and pioneering Houston restaurateur, is generally accepted to have invented the dish as it is made today, though at her restaurant, Mama Ninfa's in Houston, the menu calls it tacos al carbon. [1] (http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2000-09-28/cafe.html) The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... State nickname: Lone Star State Other U.S. States Capital Austin Largest city Houston Governor Rick Perry Official languages None. ... A diagram of the thoracic muscles featuring the diaphragm In the anatomy of mammals, the diaphragm is a shelf of muscle extending across the bottom of the ribcage. ... Hispanic, as used in the United States, is one of several terms used to categorize native and naturalized U.S. citizens, permanent residents and temporary immigrants, whose background hail either from Spain, the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America or the original settlers of the traditionally Spanish-held Southwestern United... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Tejano is also the name of Texans of Spanish origin. ... Houston redirects here. ... Mama Ninfas restaurant is a Houston, Texas-based restaurant chain. ...

Use of the word fajita has evolved from the term for a cut of beef to include the cooking method (thus chicken fajita) and also to define the grilled strips of peppers and onions that usually accompany the meat. This last step might be supported by the similarity of the word fajitas to the word rajitas, diminutive of rajas, a term used in Mexico to describe these strips.

External links

• A Six-Part History of Tex-Mex (http://www.houstonpress.com/special/texmex.html)
• Steer Anatomy(see skirt steak) (http://www.foodtv.com/food/show_ea/article/0,1976,FOOD_9956_2245424,00.html)