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 [...]

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.

Ich Bin Ein Berliner Taco How fun to read in yesterdays NY Times Travel section a piece on authentic tacos in Berlin. A pair of young fellows, one from Mexico City and one from Australia, have three places in the city, all riffing on the name of Maria. There’s Maria Bonita (Mary the Pretty), Maria [...]

I’m back after two months of inactivity here. I’ve eaten plenty of tacos, brewed about 20 batches of beer, and conjured the ghosts of forgotten mariners, but nary a taco post has emanated from my fingertips. What shook the dust from this blog? Bandini did it. He’s the author of Daily Taco, a cool taco [...]

I laughed at this little clip quite a bit. The music made it. It came via a site called Toronto Taco. Click on the Tacodex and see all the taco joints in Toronto. I didn’t know there were so many. Taco Plates If you’re in need of a plate to keep your tacos upright, then [...]

One of my New Year resolutions is to learn Esperanto; thus, the title above, which means Happy New Year Tacos. Another resolution is charting the path for the sequel to my cookbook Tacos: Authentic, Festive & Flavorful. In college, I majored in Anthropology, and racked up enough credits for a minor, before switching to Spanish. [...]

During the days since my last post, I’ve been contemplating life in the Taco Matrix, a world of tortillas and fillings, obsessive niche blogging, the search for a unifying principle with the taco as both sustenance fueling the search and as pedagogic symbol of something deeper, perhaps. Sometimes not. In its multitudinous boneyard of dimensions, [...]

Out Of The Enclave: Latinos Adapt, And Adapt To, The American City I usually keep things lighthearted here at Taco Matrix, and I’m not saying this next piece is heavy, but it’s very interesting and serious in a scholarly way (which I am no stranger to, having a BA in Spanish & Anthropology), and certainly [...]

We saw Land of the Lost this weekend. I used to watch the show as a kid, though I’m not nostalgic about it. Since we were with kids, it was a choice between Will Ferrell (who I like) and Up (I’m so tired of Pixar). During the scene in the Lost City, Chaka is trying [...]