The Good Food channel on YouTube video offers our SECOND favorite “Mexican curry” recipe. We like this older “Mexican curry” video better because we can understand what the guy is saying.
Cultura
It’s Not News to Us
Los Cenzontles: Randy Newman’s “Memo to My Son” (video, lyrics)
Los Cenzontles cover Randy Newman’s Memo To My Son.
Mira los lyrics:
Mas…Los Cenzontles: Randy Newman’s “Memo to My Son” (video, lyrics)
The struggle is real: Churro know my life! (toon)
Speedy Gonzales and ‘La Cucaracha’: Marihuana por fumar (1955 video)
Mexico’s fastest mouse, our hero Speedy Gonzalez, is a friend to everybody’s seester. But Speedy, unlike POCHO’s La Cucaracha, needs his “marihuana por fumar.” Speedy Gonzales (yes, that’s the name of the cartoon and our leading man) won an Academy Award in 1955.
Mas…Speedy Gonzales and ‘La Cucaracha’: Marihuana por fumar (1955 video)
4/20 Music Video: Tawny River and ‘Aye, Marijuana! ¡Mira la luna!’
It’s a love song, tu sabes, from Tawny River. This guy just totally loves this gal named Mary Jane, and she makes him feel like he’s walking on the Moon!
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions: ‘Isn’t it True’ (music video)
MR POCHO’s imaginary girlfriend, East Los Angel Hope Sandoval (formerly of Mazzy Star) just released this new music video Isn’t it True. We’re in love all over again. Hope: Look in your OTHER mailbox on Facebook. ❤️
In Toronto, a Veracruz chef makes Tacos de Rajas Poblanos (video)
Elia Herrera is the executive chef of Los Colibrís in Toronto, an upscale Mexican restaurant that features cuisine from her home state of Veracruz.
Watch how she makes tacos de Rajas Poblanos — with chicken, corn, onions, poblano peppers, panela cheese, milk and handmade flour or corn tortillas, as she explains the unique mezcla of ideas and cultures which define her life and her love of food.
Have it your way at Burger King in Spain: ‘Mexican Crispy’ (video)
In España, when the boys hang out at Burger King and talk shop, they have it their way: Mexican Crispy. Also Nuevos King Nuggets. Not huevos, you pervs. Nuevos.
My name is Vero and I’m a Mexican-American (video)
Vero Higareda made this video for a class she’s taking at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Like so many others, she has been told that she doesn’t look Mexican.
How greedy miners poisoned a city: ‘El Corrido Del Rio Sonora’ (videos)
Michael J. and Peter D. Ronstadt — of Ronstadt Generations — perform their song El Corrido Del Rio Sonora, about the 2014 Buena Vista Mine Spill in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. The spill released copper sulphate acid that flowed down the Rio Bacanuchi to the Rio Sonora.
The river supplies water for the capital city of Hermosillo. There is still no agreement on damages nor have there been any efforts to take remedial and preventative measures for the future.
Mas…How greedy miners poisoned a city: ‘El Corrido Del Rio Sonora’ (videos)
‘The New Che of Havana’ is a skater and tattoo artist (video)
If Comrade Fidel were alive today, he’d be turning over in his grave. Wait. Let’s try that again. If Comrade CHE were alive today…
In The New Che of Havana, skateboarder and tattoo artist Che Alejandro, faces an uncertain future as unprecedented change transforms Cuban society.
Smell of blood money? Red crabs swarm off coast of Panama (video)
Last April, a research team studying biodiversity at the Hannibal Bank Seamount off the coast of Panama captured something unexpected — unique video of thousands of red crabs swarming in low-oxygen waters just above the seafloor. What do you think: Are they attracted by the smell of all that hidden blood money?
Bienvenidos a Mexico DF, ‘La Ciudad de los Perros’ (video)
In Mexico City, it’s a dog’s life. La Ciudad de los Perros is a video by Efrén (Freddy) del Rosal
ZUBI to the rescue if you hate Mexicans and that taco emoji (video)
Advertising agency ZUBI (in Florida, of course) steps up for the minority of “Latinos” and “Hispanics” who aren’t Mexican — and people who hate tacos. Because “Latino emotions,” tu sabes, are different and require special emoji.
Mas…ZUBI to the rescue if you hate Mexicans and that taco emoji (video)
Benji, in the United Kingdom, makes a ‘Mexican-inspired curry’ (video)
We’ll let Cooking With Benji tell the story:
Mexican food is great and curries are also great of all types from all sorts of places. Fajitas are also delicious, this recipe is a modification of a a fajita recipe with the secret ingredient of creme fraiche to make a cool but spicy and smooth curry.
Mas…Benji, in the United Kingdom, makes a ‘Mexican-inspired curry’ (video)
LA’s Ramiro Gomez makes invisible workers visible (NPR audio)
Painting on the radio is like fish on bicycles, except if you are POCHO amigo Ramiro Gomez, Jr., whose artistic mission is to represent the usually invisible immigrant laborers who keep America running.
Mas…LA’s Ramiro Gomez makes invisible workers visible (NPR audio)
Star Trek Native America: The Prime Directive (mostly SFW video)
What happens when indigenous Star Fleet Captain James T. Kirk violates the Prime Directive? Will he create an alternative universe? (Caution: one “adult” word.) Let’s tune in….
PREVIOUSLY ON STAR TREK:
Mas…Star Trek Native America: The Prime Directive (mostly SFW video)
Trump taco: Lotsa of tongue (lengua), poquito sesos (brains) [video]
A Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, MX taqueria famous for its politically-inspired tacos has named a taco for Donald Trump.
Owner Humberto Erives-Beto explained Sunday that he was inspired by Trump’s controversial remarks.
“I just made it as most of the world considers him – with lots of tongue, very little brains and I put a bit of pig’s trompita,” said Beto, owner of Taqueria El Tio Beto. (Trompita = snout.)
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: ‘My Beloved World’ (audio)
From 2013: LatinoUSA’s Maria Hinojosa talks to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor about her memoir My Beloved World. The book tells the story of Sotomayor’s childhood in the South Bronx and her years before the court.
Hola, Saudi Arabia! You call, we deliver: Mexican Plate صحن الوليمة (video)
Pretty much 90 seconds of hey that looks delish but Mexican Plate huh? What exactly are we looking at?
You might want to write that phone number down — 0545123610:
Mas…Hola, Saudi Arabia! You call, we deliver: Mexican Plate صحن الوليمة (video)
The Kids Я All Right Dept: Taco truck? How about a taco SHIP! (video)
POCHO’s Associate Naranjero ¡Ask A Mexican! Gustavo Arellano wrote a whole book about how tacos are American as apple pie — TACO USA — which you can buy on Amazon.
Taco Truck and Taco Ship, a short commercial for happy, fun futuristic taco technology by students Sum, Quintin, and Samuel of the Blaine County School District in Idaho, proves Gustavo’s point. Also on sale at Amazon. 😉