When I think of caviar, I usually think of ridiculously expensive black fish eggs and fancy people dripping in diamonds. Developed in 1940 by Helen Corbitt, a New Yorker who had relocated to Texas, the dish was dubbed Texas Caviar as a tongue-in-cheek joke when it was served at a fancy New Year’s Eve party at the Houston Country Club. After a time, alternate names like “Cowboy Caviar” and “Redneck Caviar” surfaced, but the original name is still my favorite.