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Taco Literacy

Writing Transnational Mexican Foodways

February 12, 2020February 13, 2020

Welcome to the HSCL Taco Crew & "Ugly Delicious" Taco Literacy

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February 10, 2020February 10, 2020

Taco Literacy in Taco USA, Quote Tamales, and Fajitas

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February 6, 2020February 6, 2020

Taco USA, Taquitos, Olvera Street, & Nixtamal NYC Tortillas

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February 3, 2020February 3, 2020

On Nixtamal & "Quote Tamales"

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January 30, 2020January 30, 2020

United States of Mexican Food

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January 27, 2020January 27, 2020

Appropriation, Tamarindo, Instagram

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January 23, 2020January 23, 2020

How to “Decolonize Our Love for Food”

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August 19, 2018

When Taco Literacy Went to California

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April 27, 2018

Notes for the Taco Camino

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Welcome to my barrio @rick_andrew_martinez & the @bonappetitmag this is #PueblaYork 🇲🇽🗽 Happy to connect Rick with Lupe from @aquienbellapuebla.restaurant Lupe also makes the best #TacosArabes (with a "secret" sazón 😊) along the 7. Sra Lupe is a 🌟. Btw Bella Puebla also has a pizzeria on 37th Ave, where they also sell delicious tamales de mole. #tacoliteracy
On a walk through #Woodside one fine day, @rositamexicana found me, called me, sd, "Oye gordo, ven." So I went. 😊 More soon, as the torta lineup is perhaps the most impressive in #PueblaYork. This is a weekend special, pork ribs in mole de chipotle. 🤤 #tacoliteracy
Norteño agave spirits in #Manhattan both @lahiguerasotol #sotol from#Chihuahua AND @bacanoraranchotepua #baconara from #Sonora. I went looking for the sotol, but the floor manager, Carlos, who lived for a while in Hermosillo, saw my sotol bottle & showed me the stuff just in from Sonora. When I told him I was from AZ, he knew Safford. Impressive. Maybr sad. 😂 Also knew Cananea, Sonora, where mi jefa is from. Of course, Carlos and I spoke for twenty minutes about flour tortillas. Btw, the painting behind the bottle of sotol is by my deceased prima Gloria. Her dad, my Tio Pancho, was a tamalero for a long while, so she painted this to honor him. When she passed away ten years ago, she left me her paintings in her will. ♥
Another #TacoLiteracy required reading, the @bonappetitmag #Taco issue. You definitely have to check this one out. Yes, and a taco timeline, focusing on tacos in the US by the taco professor. 😂 🌮🤠 https://www.bonappetit.com/story/taco-nation
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The #Montclair tortilla game: solid. 😊 Fun time visiting faculty at @montclairstateu to speak about #tacoliteracy & with tacos for the audience. Yes, a happy audience. ✨🌮✨
#Tortilla day at #StJohns for #TacoLiteracy with tortillas from none other than the legendary @tortillerianixtamal. We practiced "sensory vocabulary" to write about flavors. Then later, I met up with the #HSCL jovenes to talk more about tortillas, and maybe falling too deeply into "taco dad" jokes 😂. The high school students will be sitting in class starting next week. 🤓
Fun times talking tacos with @bonappetitmag homies, hanging out with Sra. Lupe of @aquienbellapuebla.restaurant (maestra with her famous secret sauce for her #TacosArabes 😊) & introducing @rick_andrew_martinez to one of the best spots for #TacosPlaceros in #PueblaYork #tacoliteracy 🇲🇽🗽
Introducing buddies, #PueblaYork ♥. 😊 @rick_andrew_martinez & @aquienbellapuebla.restaurant #tacoliteracy & thanks to @bonappetitmag for buying me a couple #TacoArabes 🤠
Some #tacoliteracy close-reading practice, to make "quote tamales" in class. 🤠 Reading this passage from page 37 #TacoUSA by the maestro @gustavo_arellano on the history of chili. Join the comments. 😊🌮
The weekly visit to the buena gente de @birrialandianyc 🤠. Never fails, each time I try the consome, I say, "Chingao, that's good." Maybe the dream is to get a lonchera like this to park by @stjohnsu 😂 🌮 #tacoliteracy
Today, #tacoliteracy class focused on #MexicanNYC with a little overview of #PueblaYork and zooming in to my favorite @lamoradanyc to share with the students why the ♥ of the restaurant is community, justice, and comida, en confianza. 😊🌮
#TamarindoLiteracy today in class. 😊 Check out the work of the students this semester with hashtag #tacoliteracy & yes join us too! Read more abt tamarindo in class today at tacoliteracy.com.
One of my favorite markets in the barrio underwent a serious renovation, and opened up a huge panadería in the back. The monster chocolate conchas on the bottom are probably 14 inches in diameter - only three fit on a single sheet. They are more like little concha cakes. 😊 #tacoliteracy #pueblayork #mexny
The carne asada tacos at #TaqueriaCoatzingo still stands on its own, same for the birria de res. Coatzingo's distinctly Pueblan birria gets less attention than the TJ-style Birria-Landia, but it is equally as delicious. #tacoliteracy
And post number 1,000 with one of my favorite meals in a long time, shared with friends at @midulcemexicobakery which is run by the fine gente who owned #TaqueriaSinaloense and today was a return to one of the only places to find northern Mexican in #nyc with the maestro Robert Sietsema who decided to order all the Sinaloan specialties of the casa #chilorio #aguachile #machaca #tacoliteracy #queens #queensny
Good news, gente: the famouse #chilorio from the former #TaqueriaSinaloense has a home now at @midulcemexicobakery on 97th Street. The owner sent me a msg on Facebook, sd come on down. So I was like, 🏃. #tacoliteracy #nyc #queens #queensny #mexny
After a fine bologna sandwich & chelas at @underthevolcanony I came back to the barrio for the al pastor bc I value my health. 🤠
#tacoliteracy on the road to @montclairstateu on Feb. 4, wherein the profe speaks abt #MexicanPassaic 🌮 #MexicanNewJersey #mexnj #nj
Couple of my homies took me out for a post-bday celebration, so we stopped at @birrialandianyc for the good stuff. Greeted with saludos & smiles from the chavos working the magic. The consome on a cold night is magical. 🇲🇽🗽 #tacoliteracy #nyc #ny #queens #queensny #mexny #jacksonheights

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