DID YOU KNOW: Alicia’s Mexican Deli and Catering owner Alicia Gonzales married into a migrant family at the age of 14 in a little town called Vernon, Texas? After the death of her husband, Alicia raised her 7 children alone. Her son Mike also passed away in 2006. Alicia has been cooking for as long as she can remember. Even as a child of 6, she remembers cooking lunch for her dad who was working in the fields.