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Make ‘pineapple and pork’ tacos the New Zealand way (video)
Mexican-style food products maker Tio Pablo, in New Zealand, shows us how to make “pork and pineapple tacos” using their Mayan Gold chile powder and mango salsa picante. PRO TIP: “Coriander” = cilantro.
Got tortillas? Avocados? Galaxy slime? Hydra steak? Let’s make burritos!
Mexican creator Evelyn Ramsburgh shows us how a green space alien makes burritos. Tortillas we have. Avocados ditto. The slime may be hard to source locally however.
Mezcal: It’s not just for Mexicans anymore (NPR audio)
More and more Americans are getting into mezcal, and that’s good news for a new generation of artisanal farmers and producers.
San Diego devises 10-dimensional grid to evaluate burritos (video)
At a recent Ignite San Diego session — where you get 20 slides and five minutes — presenter Scott Cole described his systematic evaluation of the burritos of San Diego using ten dimensions of awesomeness.
And that’s how they make tacos in Tijuana, Baja California (video)
If this short video featuring the preparation of tortillas and tacos in TJ doesn’t make you hungry, ask your doctor if having Don Jr. jerk your email chain is right for you.
Preparing tacos de lengua: First, get yourself some veal tongue… (video)
Preparing tacos de lengua (veal tongue) is easy if you have hundreds of dollars of state-of-the-art cooking equipment from Sammic. Still, it’s weird to look at and be sure you peel off the icky “outer membrane”. Also, we notice a distinct lack of chiles, cilantro and lime. And what is up with those mini tortillas?
Israeli app helps you choose: Sketchy tacos, pad Thai, or pizza? (video)
The Israeli smartphone app 10BIS (Give Me a Bite תן ביס) makes it easy to order food and pay online. Do you want the sketchy Bollywood gold chain tacos, pad Thai, or pizza? ¡Orale, guey!
The ‘Salsa Shop’ Mexi food chain in Amsterdam is hiring (video)
The Mexican food chain Salsa Shop, with locations around Amsterdam, is looking for a few good employees and managers. Sweet video, and the food looks legit. Nice t-shirts, too.
Worth it or not? Two tacos for $9 at Dodger Stadium (video)
When you root root root for Los Doyers, it’s better with the tacos, right? But are the tacos at Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine worth nine bucks for two? Jose Contreras — @LosPonies on the Twitter — reports.
In Chicago’s Pilsen barrio, the molé is made with love (video)
The Pilsen neighborhood in Chicago’s West Side — in the middle of a fierce battle against gentrification — is the center of the Windy City’s Mexican-Americam community. The recent Molé de Mayo fiesta highlighted the classic Mexican magical slow-cooked sauce of many ingredients: Molé. [Video by the students at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.]
Molé is the mero mero magical mezcla madre (video)
An energetic dreamscape captures Mexico’s passion for molé, a signature celebration dish, through the eyes of Mexican chef Enrique Olvera.
No ‘taco trucks on every corner’? We’ve got a Taco Truck Playhouse!
We could have elected Hillary and ended up with the dread TACO TRUCKS ON EVERY CORNER, but no. Resist and teach your children well with this adorable carboard Taco Truck Playhouse, just $69 right here.
Now we’re sad. We made this Taco Trucks Anthem and what did it get us? Nada!
Mas…No ‘taco trucks on every corner’? We’ve got a Taco Truck Playhouse!
Blueberry mota molé chicken tacos and kale carrot salad (video)
In this episode of Cooking With the Giggles, our munchified host Jim Jensen aka Mr. Giggles shows how molé can be medicine. SPOILER: Mota-infused butter.
Mas…Blueberry mota molé chicken tacos and kale carrot salad (video)
TV chef Chris Oh doesn’t like NYC tacos except for chapulines (video)
Bravo celeb chef Chris Oh brings his L.A. taco-loving Asian chef tastebuds to a table of (anonymous) New York tacos looking for that Los Angeles sabor. Those chapulines (grasshoppers), though!
The Food Network says ‘taco cones’ are the ‘new tacos’ (video)
Opinions are like culos; everybody has one. The Food Network is of the opinion that “taco cones” are the “new tacos,” for example, and Christopher Columbus thought he “discovered” a “new world.” Trump thinks he has the best “taco bowls.” Not so fast, you bad hombres! If you circumcise the tips of the cones, what is gonna keep all the juices inside? #fncravings, huh?
ZZ Top fan ZZ Tom recreates, eats LP cover Mexican dinner (video)
Greatest LP food photo of all time? The Mexican food porn from ZZ Top’s 1973 Tres Hombres album. Austin chef Thomas ZZ Tom Micklethwait recreated this dinner for the cameras and then ate it.
Online commenter KublaConn added these deets:
Mas…ZZ Top fan ZZ Tom recreates, eats LP cover Mexican dinner (video)
New ‘Amigous’ cerveza from Mexico trolls Trump (video)
Mexican and U.S. brewers have reinvented Donald Trump as a gun-slinging mariachi to promote a new beer celebrating cross-border cooperation.
Pittsburgh’s Las Palmas taqueria looks muy rico in Russian (video)
A Russian voiceover lauds the tacos at Las Palmas in Pittsburgh, PA, which seems to be pretty legit, at least on Yelp. Why is the narration in Russian? Get used to it, covfefe!
How to make ‘Mexican Chicken’ (Welsh recipe video)
As we consider the ramifications of the United Kingdom’s election yesterday, let us not lose sight of the fact that the U.K. is comprised of three separate entities — England, Scotland, and Wales. In Wales, they speak and write Welsh, with all those long words and weird consonants, and also make taco casseroles.
This video from the Taco Gurú folks is a love letter to tacos
This video is a love letter to tacos from the folks behind the Mexican Taco Gurú app.
Mas…This video from the Taco Gurú folks is a love letter to tacos
Chingones and Chingonas: You’ve got to see ‘Wonder Woman’
Chingones and Chingonas, here’s a movie you’ve got to see. Mujer Maravilla! FOR REAL.
Follow me on this. The original Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, if you know your Pocho Historia, is a Latina.
In fact she’s a lot like another rarely acknowledged Latina goddess of the screen, Rita Hayworth aka Margarita Cansino.
You like comic books and superhero movies? Of course you do.
Mas…Chingones and Chingonas: You’ve got to see ‘Wonder Woman’
Saudi Arabia’s FireGrill Mex Kitchen Speed Eating Contest (video)
They’re one part Mexico, one part California and rolled in Arabia where SIZE MATTERS.
Mas…Saudi Arabia’s FireGrill Mex Kitchen Speed Eating Contest (video)
Hipster ‘Palm Pies’ or culturally-appropriated empanadas? (video)
In the second episode of Welcome to the Northside, a Denver hipster brings his Palm Pie food cart to the hood, but our hero Mikey Gonzales is skeptical.
Gonzales, a Chicano young professional, just bought a house in this gentrifying neighborhood, but still finds himself searching for home.
- See all the episodes of Welcome to the Northside on their YouTube channel
- Check out the Facebook page, too!
Soup_or_Sara: ‘I stitched my favorite conversation starter’ (photo)
Reddit user soup_or_sara has the right idea!
Tacos are for everyone – paisas, gueros, y morenos tambien (video)
The tacos at Taqueria El Califa in Mexico City are for everyone – paisas, gueros y morenos tambien. All together now: WORLD PEACE AND TACO GREASE!
This may be the prettiest tamales video ever
Evenuelto en Hojas in Quintana Roo specializes in tamales made with amor, and atole. How can you go wrong? [Video by Mariana de la Rosa.]
Making tacos de lengua at Tacos Rocha in Nuevo León, MX
In this pilot for a web series called Micro Bites spotlighting “unusual” Mexican dishes, we watch the preparation of beef tongue tacos. Eduardo Ramirez takes us along for tacos de lengua at Tacos Rocha, in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, in northeast Mexico, an hour south of Laredo. Flour or corn, with a side of borracho beans.