Australian foodsters Sugars of the World made this video to promote Agave Sugar, and its birthplace, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
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¡Tres de asada, por favor!
Can solar-powered mariachis replace bean-powered mariachis?
(PNS reporting from GUANAJUATO, MX) Solar-powered mariachis have begun coming off production lines here in the high tech manufacturing city of Guanajuato, Mexico, musical soldiers in the war on climate change.
The eco-friendly musicians use renewable energy from the sun instead of traditional musical fuels like frijoles, tacos y cerveza, all of which produce the damaging “greenhouse gas” behind global warming.
The solar-powered trio – maracas, trumpet, and guitar – were recently spotted playing an unpublicized gig at a 99 Cents Only store in the Houston, Texas area, according to Juan of Words, who took the photo above.
YouTuber David Diaz spotted another trio dancing silently in a letterbox, and added his own music:
Mas…Can solar-powered mariachis replace bean-powered mariachis?
What’s for lunch? Tacos al vapor – steamed tacos in a basket (video)
Also known as Tacos de Canasta (tacos in a basket) and Sweaty Tacos (tacos sudados) these Mexico City soft tacos are cheap, delicious and easy to scarf down during a short lunch break. Just look for the taquero with a bicycle — and a basket!
New medical study: Eating spicy foods helps you live longer
Here’s some fantastically hot news: The more chiles you eat, the longer you’ll live!
Eating spicy food is associated with a reduced risk for death, an analysis of dietary data on more than 485,000 people found.
Study participants were enrolled between 2004 and 2008 in a large Chinese health study, and researchers followed them for an average of more than seven years, recording 20,224 deaths. The study is in BMJ.
After controlling for family medical history, age, education, diabetes, smoking and many other variables, the researchers found that compared with eating hot food, mainly chili peppers, less than once a week, having it once or twice a week resulted in a 10 percent reduced overall risk for death. Consuming spicy food six to seven times a week reduced the risk by 14 percent.
Mas…New medical study: Eating spicy foods helps you live longer
Burrito rolling not so easy, Beverly Hills lawyer learns (NSFW video)
POCHO amigo Jeff B. Cohen, a child actor (Chunk in The Goonies) who grew up to be a Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer, learned the hard way that rolling a burrito on a hot grill is no piece of cake. [NSFW F-bombs.]
Mas…Burrito rolling not so easy, Beverly Hills lawyer learns (NSFW video)
Tough Taco says ‘Don’t hate the player, hate the game’ (video)
A Bay Area taco makes the most of his mellow until a magical Crown of Bling gives him a more energetic lifestyle – for a while. But you Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game.
Mexican Street Corn Salad mit Bulgur: Rezept und Anleitung (video)
Heute gibt es meinen mexikanischen Mais Salat in der Version mit Bulgur als Rezept für euch. Der Salat ist so einfach selber zu machen, den bekommt jeder Trottel hin 😉
Das schöne ist noch, dass ihr diesen Salat das ganze Jahr machen könnt da er asaisonal ist.
…And that’s how the Mexicans make fish tacos, Skippy (video)
And that’s how they make fish tacos in Centla, in the state of Tabasco, on the Gulf Coast, in southeast Mexico.
Area executive thinks about delicious lunch torta all day long
(PNS reporting from LAREDO) District III Regional Supervisor Pablo Gutierrez, 35, could not wait for yesterday’s pinche lunch break to begin so he could buy a firme torta at Joaquin’s Lonchera.
“Tortas were all I could think about,” the middle management exec told PNS Monday evening.
“I mean, when Andy from Financing handed me all those reports, I said ‘thanks’ but I was really imagining that he was a giant slice of avocado in my torta.”
Mas…Area executive thinks about delicious lunch torta all day long
In Honolulu, TacoCat pops-up awesome Korean tacos (video)
Welcome to TacoCat, a crowd-funded Korean street pop-up in Honolulu, where everyone enjoys “food, flavor, fun and meow!” On the Twitter, they’re @TacoCatHI.
Hello, gringos! Eat like a Mexican (but we won’t say that) [video]
Wow. There is this seasoning, Cappy, and you too, Kirsten and Brooke – there is this TAJIN seasoning for your fruit AND veggies! Spicy! Salty! Lime! Totes, like, amazeballs! It adds a ZING! to everything! I wonder where they get these ideas?
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Mas…Hello, gringos! Eat like a Mexican (but we won’t say that)
Visiting Belgrade, Serbia? Mexico is so close! In Burrito! (photos)
Pictures speak a thousand (very orange) palabras, and when it comes to words, we can’t do any better than the self-penned description of Burrito, a Mexican restaurant in Belgrade, Serbia, in the former Yugoslavia, right by the Nikolai Tesla Museum (see map below):
Mas…Visiting Belgrade, Serbia? Mexico is so close! In Burrito! (photos)
Welcome to Hotel Caesar’s, Tijuana! Enjoy your salad (video)
The family of Caesar Cardini still owns and runs Hotel Caesar’s in Tijuana, where Caesar Salad was invented.
Did you know Caesar’s original recipe calls for lime juice, not lemon? Lima, not limon?
¡Que Mexicano!
Cook a hamburguesa or go get one with Salma Hayek? (videos)
What will it be? A home-made “Mexican hamburger” or a ride to Burger Boy in Salma Hayek’s convertible for hamburguesas? We embed, you decide.
Cook a burger:
Mas…Cook a hamburguesa or go get one with Salma Hayek? (videos)
For one night only, the Fresno Grizzlies will be the Fresno Tacos
For one night only, August 6, Triple-A baseball team the Fresno Grizzlies will play as the Fresno Tacos.
Mas…For one night only, the Fresno Grizzlies will be the Fresno Tacos
Madonna’s new NSFW music video ‘Taco Truck Bonita’ is puro L.A.
OOPS, SORRY POCHOS.
THE VIDEO PEOPLE CHANGED THE SETTINGS TO PRIVATE.
IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED!
Mas…Madonna’s new NSFW music video ‘Taco Truck Bonita’ is puro L.A.
The molcajete: Mexico’s stone-age cooking tech still rules (video)
The continued popularity of the molcajete (mortar) and companion tejolote (pestle) is a living example of the principle “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Paletas y Racismo: I was a teenage paletero – in Georgia
After we published our shocking story about a missing El Paso paletero, a real-life former ice cream man reached out to POCHO on Facebook.
Jonathan Omar Ramirez (Facebook profile pic, right) had been a teenage paletero, he said. We asked him for his story:
POCHO: So what led you to become a paletero?
Well my friends from high school told me about it. Many did it before and they said there was a lot of cash involved and within a couple of hours of work. Also I was very poor.
POCHO: Was this right after high school?
No [it was] while I was in high school. Still I got money to go to the movies and for food or whatever I wanted to buy
POCHO: Wow, cool! So were you allowed to eat your own ice cream? Did you just have to pay it back?
Mas…Paletas y Racismo: I was a teenage paletero – in Georgia
Native American tacos at Phoenix’ Fry Bread House (video)
The Zagat foodie channel checks out the famous Fry Bread House in Phoenix, Arizona, to find out what the huh fry bread is. And “Indian Tacos”? What the heck?
Thankfully, Sandra Martin explains how Native Americans turned Uncle Sam’s lemons into lemonade. And tacos.
Mas…Native American tacos at Phoenix’ Fry Bread House (video)
Tuesday: English vato eats tacos al pastor in Mexico City (video)
The host of YouTube’s popular True Mexico channel — he’s apparently a Brit (no name) living in Mexico City — goes out for tacos al pastor. The 1960s origin of the vertical rotary grill is a contentious Mediterranean issue with Turkey (doner kabobs), Greece (gyros) and Lebanon (shwarma) all claiming firsties. We don’t care. Nom Nom nom.
From Australia: How to reheat mass quantities of tortillas (video)
Mexi-Australians Gerardo y Maria of La Tortilleria in Melbourne, OZ, demonstrated how to reheat their tortillas when you have a buttload of their tortillas to reheat. No kangaroos or wallabees were harmed in the making of this video.
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Mas…From Australia: How to reheat mass quantities of tortillas (video)
Oaxaca woman finds face of Jesus on homemade tortilla (video)
“A woman in southern Mexico decided to use a tortilla she had just made for spiritual, rather than physical, food after seeing the face of Jesus Christ looking back at her,” reports the Daily Mail:
Enedina Mendoza and her family make tortillas in the small Oaxacan town of Tlalixtac de Cabrera, and the baker that she [said] normally doesn’t even look at her creations.
However, instead of sending one tortilla off to become a blessed burrito, Mendoza took another glance and recognized the son of God.
Mas…Oaxaca woman finds face of Jesus on homemade tortilla (video)
Area kids have the sad because where is the Paletero Man?
(PNS reporting from EL PASO) The Montezuma Street kids met Tuesday evening, at “their tree,” the oak next to Mrs. Moreno’s house.
It was still light out on the longest day of the year, and they could have kept on bike riding, but they needed an answer, and they needed it quick.
Where, everyone wanted to know, was the Paletero Man?
Mas…Area kids have the sad because where is the Paletero Man?
Hey Vato! It’s time for ‘Taco Talk’ with the Taco Lady (video)
When a Hey Vato! fan asks the Taco Lady how to make hard shell tacos like the ones in the box at the store, she has an answer, but probably not the one the viewer wanted.
Mas…Hey Vato! It’s time for ‘Taco Talk’ with the Taco Lady (video)
L.A. woman eats 53 habanero chiles in 20 minutes (video)
Teresa de Jesus Sandoval was named the champion at the Father’s Day habanero chile eating contest at Chichenitza in Downtown L.A. after scarfing down 53 of the the scorching peppers in 20 minutes.
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Mas…L.A. woman eats 53 habanero chiles in 20 minutes (video)
Quetzal tells a tale of urban survival in ‘The Coyote Hustle’ (video)
East Los band Quetzal dedicates this video to the street vendors of L.A., the only major U.S. city where street vending is illegal. To learn more about the efforts to help hard-working families like the ones in this video, check out the Los Angeles Street Vendor Campaign on Facebook. Quetzal is the collaborative project of Quetzal Flores (guitar), Martha González (lead vocals, percussion), Tylana Enomoto (violin), Juan Pérez (bass), Peter Jacobson (cello), and Alberto Lopez (percussion).
Mas…Quetzal tells a tale of urban survival in ‘The Coyote Hustle’ (video)