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 Peligro [...]

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 go here. [...]

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 does [...]

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 [...]

Saturday Night Live’s Taco Town parody busted my stitches, to be sure. But lurking below the surface was something more. It’s been on my mind for awhile and now I think I can frame it within the context that until now was just an inchoate miasma in my brain.
I ran across this article [...]

Part of my avowed job as leader of this taco blog is to find for you everything that I can that relates to tacos. Sometimes this leads down the path toward absurdity. On that note, I leave you with The Taco Truck Boy.