Hungry For Tacos In Yerevan, Armenia

The March of the Taco Brigade continues to resound across the world. Reports of tacos in disparate corners of the globe continue to appear in the blogosphere. In this article from an Independent Armenian Publication, the author posed an interesting question, one that any inquisitive taco investigator might ask, namely, “So how did Tacos end up in Armenia?”

Apparently, Sr. de Loza has been cooking for Armenian singer Tata Simonyan and her entourage during her U.S. tours, two or three times a year. They kept insisting that he go over there. The idea revolved around catering to volunteers and visitors.

‘“We knew people come over here and they’re gonna want a little piece of L.A,” he said, and he was right.”

If you have any intention of opening a taco outpost in the far flung corners of the world, read this piece. I think I’d be happier noshing on tacos in Yerevan at Taco-Maco than at Taco Bell in the local food slum.

Señor Tacombi Teams With Tortilleria Nixtamal To Open Indoor Street Food Taco Bus

First, I want to say that I’m jealous. In all my years of slacker brainstorming, and wishing that I was a key member of an enlightened think tank, I would give my left chayote to be a part of this project. I remember the dioramas of large mammals that I viewed as a youngster in Golden Gate Park. I super-dig the concept of the taco bus kicking it inside a tricked out street scene diorama.

I first came across Señor Tacombi a few years ago on Flickr and MySpace, before he was picked up by Aaron Sanchez. Bro didn’t even put his name on his site. I knew that concept was a winner. Seems like they should put one on the west coast. The weather’s better and the laid back vibe of the combi has roots out here.

[Sidebar for the Innocent: a Combi is a cool Volkswagen bus. Señor Tacombi converted a Combi into a Taco Truck, thus Taco + Combi + Tacombi.

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Tacos In Virgin Spaces



People who get into tacos, especially those who didn’t grow up with tacos, go through stages of taco awakening. First, you’re like, wow, there’s a taco truck in my town. Then you’re like, whoa, there’s all these cool types of tacos. Thirdly, you say to your friends, hey there’s these cool taco trucks you should check out. Let’s go get some tacos. By degrees, you may end up saying things like, that was more like barbacoa than birria, I’ll give it a B-, or huitlacoche is so passé. Anyhow, here are a few examples of gateway articles about taco trucks. The Colorado article demonstrates a late-early stage of taco truck infatuation, while the Detroit article is definitely stage 1.5. Luv it. If you live in or are visiting Detroit here’s a map to taco trucks in southwest Detroit.

Hacer Las Carnitas



I love this super down to earth carnitas fest video on YouTube. At exactly 3:10 into the clip, a voice off camera says, “Muevela buey, para buscarle cueros.” (Move it dude, help find the pigskins, referring to the skins that the guy with the fork is fishing out of the lard.) The bro with the paddle doesn’t do much, then the voice says, “bajale alli.” Lower it there. At 6:31, the paddle guy reappears with a taco in hand. !Qué envidia!