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. [...]

What would Christmas Eve be without tacos? I didn’t want to find out, so we headed up to Taqueria El Gallo in Medford after an afternoon of ice skating in Ashland. El Gallo was empty except for us. The tacos were great. I had two al pastor and two carnitas.

Taco Matrix editor Scotty at El [...]

Halloween Tacos
I’ve been wanting to be a taco for Halloween for a couple of years now. But then I saw the picture below over at Tacotown.org
and now I just want to be with the taco girls for Halloween, or any other day of their choice.

According to the heads at Taco Town, “There’s a new Austin-made [...]

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 [...]

If you subscribe to Netflix, you can watch a new episode of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations from the Netflix website. The show is the Mexico episode on Volume 6. In the first part of the show, Anthony and a few others spend alot of time going around eating tacos. As usual, all that taco voyeurism [...]

I had to take my dog to the vet yesterday. It was 103 degrees in Grants Pass, down from over 110 degrees the day before. Fortunately the route to the veterinary clinic passes by the El Gallo taco truck. Naturally, I stopped in and got two tripe tacos (tacos de tripas) and two tongue tacos [...]

I took the kids into Grants Pass yesterday to pick up some food to eat in the park by the river. We picked up some sushi first, then drove down Rogue River Highway to look for the new taco truck. We spotted it in the parking lot of the Texaco gas station between JD’s Sports [...]

My wife informed me yesterday that she spotted an El Gallo truck at a gas station on Rogue River Hwy yesterday. This is big news for me and perhaps a few others who have to travel to Medford to get tacos from a truck. There is an El Gallo Market on West Main in Medford. [...]

I think about tacos everyday. Yesterday, after some consideration, I told a friend that I was pretty sure I could eat tacos everyday and not get tired of them. So when I’m not making tacos, or going out for them, I cruise food blogs as a Taco Voyeur. I started on Pleasure Palate, checking out [...]

It’s exciting to witness the explosion of street food across the country, whether it’s served out of trucks, trailers, wagons, carts, easy-ups, tables, or suburban garages. As a taco truck fiend originally from Redwood City, Calif. I witnessed the slow, inexorable growth of the taco truck and taqueria trade there and elsewhere in the SF [...]