Calbi Fusion Tacos & Burritos Opens Today in Austin, Texas What began with a soft landing of sorts, with Calbi giving away 1500 tacos during the SXSW Festival in Austin last month, is now hard fact. Austin now has their own Calbi Fusion Taco Truck. In yesterday’s Business Wire press release, Calbi President Coleen Craig [...]

OK, so the Spicy Pickles recipe I did this weekend turned out great. They’re a mash-up of the Pickled Cauliflower recipe by Staffan Terje of Perbacco in San Francisco and the Pickled Jalapeños and Carrots recipe from my book Tacos: Authentic, Festive & Flavorful. I also added some jicama to the recipe. Every taco truck and taqueria [...]

First off, a few people have asked me to keep the recipes coming. Last Saturday, I was thinking about the spicy pickled vegetables from a favorite southern Oregon taqueria, La Tapatia. There are jalapeños, carrot slices, jicama chunks, and sometimes cauliflower florets in a spicy brine at the salsa bar. In particular, I was ruminating [...]

Roy Choi of Kogi BBQ Truck is Food & Wine Magazine’s New Hottest Young Chef According to this Reuter’s article, Food & Wine’s editor Dana Cowin thinks Mr. Choi, a classically trained chef who did time at Eric Ripert’s Le Bernardin, is tops. Said Ms. Cowin, “Roy is bringing food to the street with real [...]

I just got through with a fun interview with Sandy Gluck of Everyday Food on Martha Stewart Living. I sure hope it was enjoyable and interesting for all the Sirius and XM listeners. For those of you coming here from Sirius and XM looking for recipes, I’m getting to it. This is definitely putting the [...]

I just had to make a quick post this morning before running out the door. This article, Rediscovering Salsa, the Soul of Mexico in a Bowl from yesterday’s NY Times website. The two things I took away from the article were these quotes: “A great taco is a perfect food.” –Danny Mena, chef at Hecho [...]