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  Cuates Kitchen Food Truck: Veracruz Recipes and Lessons Learned 2 Years Out

  March 9 at 4 a.m.

  Twins Carla and Carlos Rodriguez were born in Veracruz, Mexico, and spent their early years eating food made in their grandmother's kitchen. After they immigrated to Texas while still in school, that connection to the particular style of Mexican coastal cuisine remained through their mom and their aunt, the latter...

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  Tacodeli to Cook at the James Beard House

  February 24 at 4 a.m.

  One has to wonder if Tacodeli's co-founder, Roberto Espinosa, knew all it would become, when it was starting out as just one store in Austin in 1999. At the time, he was missing the street tacos of his hometown in Mexico City. And now, they’re heading to the James Beard House...

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  Bad Spanish Tacos Goes Hard on the Veggie Option, But Don’t Dis His Brisket

  February 19 at 4 a.m.

  Billy Flores of Bad Spanish Tacos keeps his work area tight and clean. Not a single errant onion square or cilantro leaf lies anywhere but in their prescribed containers. No fingerprint smudges stain the table, no trails of salsa run down the sides of the sauce bottles. It’s simply clean,...

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  VICE Has Released a Video Special About Revolver Taco and the Dishwasher Who Makes Guns

  February 12 at 4 a.m.

  Deep Ellum’s Revolver Taco Lounge is loved by many for its incredible tacos. The ingredients are at times boundary-pushing for some who might not be used to it, like chingones escamoles de Oaxaca (ant larvae that tastes like butter). The spot consistently ranks among the best, here and elsewhere. If...

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  El Oaxaqueño Celebrates Food and Culture in Oak Cliff

  January 30 at 4 a.m.

  “I was born in an indigenous town in Oaxaca, Mexico. It is a community that has a wonderful culture and very ancient traditions of the ancestral Zapotecos Indians,” says Honorio García, owner of El Oaxaqueño Taquería y Panaderia. “My grandmother was hired to cook food for each community event [in...

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  Dallas, You’re on Notice: Tacos de Birria at Chilangos Will Ruin You. Just Let It Happen.

  January 23 at 4 a.m.

  Jon Garay and Joel Mendoza finally have the taco spot they've been searching for on Harry Hines Boulevard. It’s been a long time coming. Both, originally from Mexico City, missed the places they frequented there. More specifically, the taco carts. After finishing his finance degree at SMU, Garay followed a...