No bad luck for tacos today. Just good vibes! There’s lots of great stuff going on in the taco universe, so let’s check it out. First, you may have heard of Gustavo Arellano, editor of OC Weekly, syndicated columnist of ¡Ask a Mexican!, and now author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. He [...]

The taco life continues unabated. Yesterday, I ate four fresh carnitas tacos at El Gallo truck in Medford. Lots of places have fake griddle cooked pork they call carnitas. El Gallo makes carnitas fresh on weekend mornings. Anyway, I hear there’s a new Mexican place opening in Portland, Oregon called Corazon which means heart in [...]

It doesn’t get much better than this. I raised two pigs this year, both of them finished on heirloom apples and Asian pears. Mark practiced his class on the first pig, which was the main course of my wife’s birthday party. Two weeks later, I hosted a Pig Butchery class with Mark “The Butcher” Disharoon. [...]

Deer Crashes Into Taco Mac in Georgia Town

Pig Butchery Class and Pork Taco Lunch Cost $75 9 AM to 1 PM Williams, Oregon Featuring the Butchery of Mark Disharoon Pork Taco Lunch by Scott Wilson Mark will discuss the structure of a side of freshly butchered pork and demonstrate how to efficiently break it down into primal and subprimal cuts. He will [...]

I was passing some time looking at barbeque videos on the Southern Foodways Alliance YouTube page when I ran across this little clip set to Doris Day singing Tacos, Enchiladas, and Beans. Enjoy.

This summer has been great for tacos. Some of our favorites were cooked in the Caja China

The Cilantro Harvest Have you ever seen cilantro being harvested on a large scale? Look at the size of the field. Seattle Taco Truck Challenge Today A radio station called The End 107.7 is hosting the Seattle Taco Truck Challenge today. I hate to be underwhelmed by it but the website lists only four trucks, [...]

WTWJE? What tacos would Jesus eat? I think he might like eggs and chorizo, having built up a three day hunger in the crypt. I sure enjoyed my egg and chorizo tacos this morning. It seems like tacos are resurging again after several quiet months. Lawsuit Against Taco Bell Dropped You may recall that Taco [...]

Today is Fat Tuesday friends. What better way to celebrate than with tacos. Today, from 4 pm until ?, there will be tacos at the Cafe, morphing into a dance party with the Vida Girls. I have a certain nostalgia for Fat Tuesday, under another name, el “Coso”, from the Carnaval de Tenerife, in the [...]