A Night In Old San Antonio, or NIOSA as locals call it, has been the centerpiece of food-minded Fiesta revelers for 75 years.
The San Antonio Conservation Society — the group that organizes NIOSA as its biggest annual fundraiser — has documented the lore behind many of the party's most beloved snacks.
"NIOSA comestible recipes can be something someone on staff saw that really looked great, an innovative idea that maybe they saw at a fair or they dreamt up in their sleep," 50-year Conservation Society member and NIOSA Chairwoman Patti Zaiontz said."And some are food people. I actually came up with some of the things we serve today. The fried green tomatoes and the Steer on a Stick were ideas that I had many, many moons ago when I was a vice chair in the office.
NIOSA's buñuelos, fried Mexican pastry discs dusted with cinnamon and sugar, are among the foods offered at the event since it began. The booth's first chairwoman, Mary Ashley Culp, served buñuelos in 1938 when NIOSA was still called the Indian Festival. Like NIOSA's anticuchos, the festival's Bongo K Bobs — or beef kebabs souped up with the addition of bell pepper and onion — are prepped in the Conservation Society's commercial kitchen. Some 180 volunteers start prepping, cutting and skewering the meat four days before NIOSA begins, according to the Conservation Society. It also takes 240 volunteers to grill and serve the kebabs.
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