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Columns
May 24, 2012
Can Asian Girls Trust Mexican Men?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And do YOU have a big penis . . . for a Mexican?
Blogs
April 30, 2012
Taco USA Gets Big Story in New York Times!
I've obviously known about this for a while, but had to keep it under wraps for the obvious reason that one never knows what might happen in news. But as of today, the New York Times' dining section has published a big ol' piece on my book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America--and with more ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2012
Chucheman Hernandez: Tijuana's Underground Food-Video Star
Unless you subscribe to the Latino package on Dish Network--I do!--you may not have noticed that Mexico now has its own food network: Utilisima. The global foodist fever has caught on south of the border, introducing reality-based food programming, and the concept of chef as celebrity. It was all ve ... More >>
Columns
April 5, 2012
Are There Different Kinds of Mexican Food?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And how can I get a copy of 'Taco USA'?
Blogs
March 20, 2012
On the Line: Dino McDonough of Slater's 50/50, Part One
While this Forker knows she's not tall, I felt exceptionally space-efficient meeting up with Dino McDonough of the growing Slater's franchise. It's no wonder; as he's six-foot-three, I was content to sit on the raised bench in the Huntington Beach locale to conduct our interview. He's been with t ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2011
On the Line: Pedro Resendiz of Tamarindo Truck, Part One
Photo by Meranda CarterWe meet up with luxe lonchera owners Pedro and Sarah Resendiz of Tamarindo Truck after their SoCo lunch stop one afternoon. Our humble chef was excited to share his thoughts on epazote, chiles and things that crack him up. Get to know our friends who can't sit still [Editor ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2011
No. 76: Wet Burrito at 301 Cafe
Welcome to the Weekly's list of our 100 Favorite Dishes for 2011! Tune in every day until we get to número uno! Now, on to the latest entry. . . I just did an interview with KPCC-FM 89.3's Multi-American blog about my coming book on the history of Mexican food in the United States and, of course ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
Six Presidential Encounters with Mexican Food, Ranked from Best to Worst
The only president that matters today...So today is Cinco de Mayo blah blah blah blah. But instead of offering you places to drinko, your humble scribe likes learnin' people stuff, you know, the more arcane the better. So what more-random topic than a quick overview of American presidents and the ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
Rick Bayless Announces Plans for Xipe, His First-Ever Restaurant in Mexico
Rick Bayless is nothing if not a busy man--in addition to recently visiting Baja California and opening a mini-restaurant in Chicago's O'Hare Airport, he's also planning to open his first restaurant in Mexico--in the country's capital, no less.Oh, dear . . ."xcited 2 announce new rstrnt:XIPE," th ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2011
Rick Bayless Blocks Mexican-Food Blogger Bill Esparza from Following His Twitter Account
Any of the more than 108,000 followers that celebrity chef Rick Bayless has on Twitter knows that the U.S.'s most-famous cook of Mexican food has spent the weekend in Baja California scoping the scene for his PBS series Mexico: One Plate at a Time. "Super-busy scouting n Baja morn2nite 4 season 8 ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2011
Food Lover's Confessional: Potato Taco Edition
There's a group of bloggers, journalists and lovers of food who go around sampling various kinds of tacos. The Taco Task Force, as it's called, was set up by Mexican food expert/professional saxophonist/Rick Bayless detractor Bill Esparza and has gone on a few specialized runs around the greater ... More >>
Food
January 6, 2011
El Torito Founder Is Still the Big Enchilada
Does 86-year-old Larry J. Cano, who spread sit-down Mexican dining across the U.S., have one more cuisine-changing idea in him?
Food
December 30, 2010
Grab Bag o' Goodies
Nine great posts from our Stick a Fork In It blog you might've missed
Blogs
December 16, 2010
UPDATED: Pee Wee's Famous Hot Dogs and Hamburgers Rips Off Picture of its "Mexican Hot Dog" from Legendary Tucson Chain El Güero Canelo
Updated, with a comment from Pee Wee's and the Tucson Weekly at the bottom...I've been hearing good things about Pee Wee's Famous Hot Dogs and Hamburgers in Surf City, but had to roll my eyes when the Orange County Register announced this morning they were introducing "real Mexican hot dogs" to i ... More >>
Food
November 25, 2010
Mondo Molotes at the El Moctezuma Empire
[Hole In the Wall] El Moctezuma Nos. 1, 2, and 3 all sell great Oaxacan food
Blogs
November 9, 2010
Five Mexican Dishes With a Crazy-Ass Use of Cheese that Aren't Nachos
Got them for free, as does anyone who sits at this particular table...This past Saturday was National Nachos Day, that legendary borderlands dish of tortilla chips, jalapeño and goops of cheese. The above picture are the nachos at El Cholo Cafe, Southern California's oldest Mexican restaurant an ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2010
Three Celebrity Chefs Converge Upon South Coast Plaza This Week
Photo courtesy of Macy'sThis week is turning out to become a sort of food-celebrity invasion at South Coast Plaza. Three noted chefs and cookbook authors are slated to make appearances and demos at various stores there--all this after recent appearances by Rick Bayless and Bobby Flay.First, Micha ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2010
This Week in Food: Geeks Who Drink, Reclaimin' Claim Jumper, and Noshin Nutella!
Flickr user Steve SnodgrassYes, people have dressed for Halloween as theseAs usual, too many great stories this week on this infernal blog--read them all! Too lazy? Some highlights after the jump!
Blogs
October 15, 2010
The 2011 James Beard Foundation Awards Will Go Platform-Neutral
Image Courtesy of James Beard FoundationBeginning this year (for the 2011 award season), if you write about food, whether it comes out in print or pixels, the James Beard Foundation will recognize you in the same way. So say you write a magnum opus of a review about Rick Bayless on your food blo ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2010
This Week in Food
Photo provided by Chronicle Books Learn how to make skull-shaped cake pops just in time for Halloween and read up on more of what you missed this week in Stick a Fork In It after the jump!
Blogs
October 4, 2010
Five Authentic Mexican Dishes That Would Make Rick Bayless Scream, Or: For an Aztlanista Approach to the Question of "Authenticity" in Mexican Cuisine
Chico's Tacos in El Paso: The Most Mexican Restaurant in AmericaRick Bayless came to and left Orange County last week, and none of Weeklings were able to attend, busy as we are with our normal lives (Dave, Edwin, and Shuji, their 9-to-5s; me, skinheads and pedo-priests). Sucks, because the battle ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2010
Rick Bayless to Appear at Macy's South Coast Plaza This Thursday
Of course. The one time Rick Bayless, one of the most influential people in the history of Mexican food in the United States and one thin-skinned man, I will be on assignment and unable to attend. FUCK. He'll be at Macy's at South Coast Plaza this Thursday, starting at 6:30 p.m. From the pr ... More >>
Food
September 9, 2010
Puffy the Magic Taco
[Hole In the Wall] Arturo's Puffy Tacos may be in Whittier, but La Habra loves it all the same
Blogs
September 7, 2010
Five Tips for Salsa-Making Contest Entries Gleaned from the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
A couple of weekends ago, I went Austin way to help judge the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival, one of the largest in the country. I went at the invitation of Robb Walsh, the dean of Texas food journalists and one of America's great advocates and historians of Tex-Mex cuisine (ask him wh ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2010
This Week in Food
Flickr user Thomas Leplus Five ways to prevent cooking catastrophes and more of what you missed this week in Stick a Fork In It after the jump!
Blogs
September 1, 2010
Where are the Loncheras at the Luxe-Lonchera Fests?
Photo by the Elmo MonsterReal damn street food: the taco acorazado at Alebrije'sI wasn't able to attend this past weekend's OC Foodie Fest (congrats to the organizers, btw, on the turnout) because I attended another one: the Eat Real Festival, held around Jack London Square in Oakland. You though ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2010
New York Times Gets Orange County Laughably, Stupidly Wrong
Never forget what's in our DNA...As someone who collects any and all articles, dissertations, and books on Orange County history, this past Sunday's Page One New York Times story on how our fair land "is no longer Nixon country" was the literary equivalent of Rick Bayless talking about Mexican cu ... More >>
Blogs
August 29, 2010
Jonathan Gold Lectures at Marche Moderne About Mexican Food "Authenticity," Laughs at Rick Bayless
Frontera Grill is sabroso, though...Updated after the jump: Rick Bayless responds! And isn't happy...and one of the kings of LA food blogging has even funnier things to say about Bayless... Last Thursday, the CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California (formerly the California Chicano News Media Asso ... More >>
Blogs
August 18, 2010
Stephanie Morgan of Seabirds, Part Two
Photo by Kimberly ValenzuelaToday we continue our Q&A with Stephanie Morgan of Seabirds, the one and only vegan gourmet food truck in Orange County. If you missed the first part, click here. Stay tuned tomorrow for our final installment: a recipe. What would you'd like to see more of i ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2010
Stephanie Morgan of Seabirds, Part One
Photo by Kimberly Valenzuela There's a lot of interesting stories behind our local food truck scene. Stephanie Morgan's is one of them. To start the Seabirds--OC's one and only vegan gourmet food truck--this entrepreneur gave up a plum job at a New York City investment firm. Today we ask our s ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2010
¡Ask a Comida Critic! Whither OC Cochinita Pibil?
I lost the email, so I'll paraphrase:Hey, cabrón! Peña's Restaurant in SanTana closed--pinche chingadera!-- so where can I get my cochinita pibil fix?A word on Peña's before we move on the the respuesta: it is, indeed, gone, but its loss isn't that big a deal. Although the hipsters and crazy Y ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2010
Deborah Schneider of SOL Cocina Debuts New Cookbook Tomorrow
Image Courtesy of Deborah Schneider James Beard award nomineee Deborah Schneider of SOL Cocina is debuting her fourth book, Amor Y Tacos, based on recipes she's used for the restaurant. O.C.'s answer to Rick Bayless, Chef Schneider will be having a little shin dig at her Newport Beach restau ... More >>
Food
January 28, 2010
[Hole in the Wall] On Rooster Cafe's Breakfast Burritos and the Passing of Glen Bell
Image Courtesy of Deborah Schneider James Beard award nomineee Deborah Schneider of SOL Cocina is debuting her fourth book, Amor Y Tacos, based on recipes she's used for the restaurant. O.C.'s answer to Rick Bayless, Chef Schneider will be having a little shin dig at her Newport Beach restau ... More >>
Blogs
November 26, 2009
Chef Michael Chiarello Sampling Chocolates & Wine at NapaStyle SCP
Who were you rooting for during the finals of Top Chef Masters? My money was on Hubert Keller to win, but I was fine that Rick Bayless took the title. But whoever your favorite was, you can meet one of them yourself next Tuesday. Michael Chiarello, the other finalist, will be signing books ... More >>
Columns
November 19, 2009
[¡Ask a Mexican!] The Long and the Short (Hair) of It
Who were you rooting for during the finals of Top Chef Masters? My money was on Hubert Keller to win, but I was fine that Rick Bayless took the title. But whoever your favorite was, you can meet one of them yourself next Tuesday. Michael Chiarello, the other finalist, will be signing books ... More >>
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March 8, 2007
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April 27, 2006
!Ask a Mexican!
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