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Taco Literacy

Writing Transnational Mexican Foodways

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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April 24, 2018April 26, 2018

Special Guest: Irwin Sanchez of Tlaxcal Kitchen

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April 20, 2018April 23, 2018

Class Guest: Victoria Bouloubasis on Confianza en Carolina Norte

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April 17, 2018April 18, 2018

Hemispheric Colonialism and Counter-Narratives

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April 17, 2018April 18, 2018

For April 20 Class with Victoria Bouloubasis

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April 15, 2018April 15, 2018

Class Guest: Robert Sietsema of Eater

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April 10, 2018April 10, 2018

Ritual, Ceremony, & Searching for Origins

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April 6, 2018April 9, 2018

Our Sacred Maíz is Our Mother

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Have been dreaming of the time I wd be able to make it back to #Philly for a Saturday at @barbacoachef. Learned more abt how the restaurant brings chivos from Carolina that come up to Camden for butchering, in prep for the weekend, and why pancita is a choice item on the menu. In this way, the Mexican foodways networks regionally link barbacoa traditions with larger transnational ties to culinary knowledge, people, labor, ingredients, and, in the case of this particular restaurant, social justice and culturally sustaining community building. #TacoLiteracy #philly #philadelphia 🌮
Oaxacan chocolate to start the day, and then a sweet li'l suprise. 😂😝🌮😊 #philly
The best #BirriaDeRes in #NYC & if you never tried a mulita, run along! 🏃 #tacoliteracy #queens #JacksonHeights #queensfoodways #queensny #nyc #ny #nyeats #eatnyc
Happened upon #ElTajin so dropped in for one asada & one pastor, on freshly made corn tortillas. These one will leave me with happy memories. 😊🌮 #Columbia #Missouri #MO #TacoLiteracy
When in #Columbia hit up the local taquerias. First, barbacoa & al pastor at #OsoMexicanGrill. Gente from #Michoacan who started with a lonchera, and opened their first resraurant three weeks ago. Suerte! #Missouri #MO #Columbia #TacoLiteracy
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The famous #TomatoPie of #Utica 🍅
#TacoLiteracy to @mizzou next week, wherein our hero will further delve into mechanics of eating a Rosita without it crumbling. Participants will gain from this technique, affording them the option to use the line in the future: "If I could handle this marzipan without breaking it, imagine how I cd handle yr heart." 😍 ♥ 🌮 #🌈TheMoreYouKnow✨
My first story for @culinarybackstreets about #GoodGoodMexicanGrill in #Chengdu and, yes, those flour tortillas are made with manteca and are 🔥. 😎🌶🇲🇽🇨🇳🇺🇸 #tacoliteracy
The five T's: tortillas, tamales tacos, tortas, and TENURE. #TacoLiteracy introduced me to a world of #foodways learning & thinking, but my case for promotion was with the research I have done among families y gente. That has been what I have loved most abt this road, to know there is a kind of public-engaged scholarship where academics can build relationship with people, share stories, friendship, trust, pues, en confianza. You figure how good plays a role in this. Because it has always been abt care, and I thank all the mentors who have cared for me along the way. So many stories, so many lives touched. And many more still yet. And tacos too. claro que yes, cabronxs. 😊🌮
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Sweet baby Quetzalcoatl!#Tijuana -style tacos de birria in #Queens. @birrialandianyc is my newest favorite lonchera in the barrio, serving up that #beefrria 🤠 but my ♥ for the mulitas. Been feeling down since Sinaloense closed some time back, but thankfully this lonchera answered my taco prayers. 😇 Seek and you shall find, gente. 😈 ✨🌮✨🗽✨🇲🇽✨ #TacoLiteracy
The best tacos I have had in China, at #GoodGoodMexicanGrill smoked pork covered with corn, cilantro, & tangy chipotle mayo. That flour tortilla, made with manteca rivals Los Tacos No. 1 in #NYC & yes, this is high praise. 😊🗽🇨🇳🇲🇽
The Chinese taqueros of #Chengdu coming soon, with @culinarybackstreets 😊🌮
#tacoliteracy sometimes means doing brave things for the sake of research. 😂 In this case, braving some of the scariest tacos I have encountered since growing up in southern AZ (that story will be in the libro). These "double decker" pork and beef tacos came as standard on the menu. Prefab hardshell tortillas wrapped in a flour tortilla, filled with lettuce then topped with the protein. 😯 Also tried an enchilada, and, well, can't win them all. But I write this not to disparage the Mexican food in China, not at all. The restaurant was jumping, with images of charros and luchadores on the walls, banda en estereo and lots of smiles from families enjoying their meals. For that, China wins. 😎🌮🌶🇲🇽🇨🇳 #Chengdu #Sichuan #TacoLiteracyInChina
A favorite flatbread snack in #Chengdu is the guo kui, made in a tandoor-style oven. I suspect these are living reminders of China's silk road history. This tasty morsel was filled with beef and, of course, 🌶. The jefa took a bite before my photo. 😂 #TacoLiteracyInChina
& from this day forward there can be no other way to eat dumplings. 😂 #Sichuan spice & crushed peanuts.
Imagine a Colombian buñuelo covered in chocolate. And that is this "puff." First thought this was a conchita, but I realized the cheesy interior more closely resembled some of my beloved Colombian treats. This actually is a tiramasu-filled snack, but I prefer it without the creamy filling. 😊

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