Remember when fajitas were ‘hottest Texas export since chili’?

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Remember when fajitas were ‘hottest Texas export since chili’?

As I was searching The Atlanta Journal-Constitution archives for a throwback recipe appropriate for the start of the grilling season, I ran across an article on fajitas published in the Los Angeles Times in May 1985.“For the uninitiated, fajitas (pronounced fah-HEAT-uhs) are strips of grilled skirt steak served with flour tortillas, guacamole and salsa and eaten wrapped in the tortillas, taco style,” wrote staff writer Barbara Hansen for this story made available through the Los Angeles Times wire service. “If they do not come to the table sizzling from the grill, they are not fit to be called fajitas.”It may ..