tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36916619598191644562024-03-13T03:18:20.407-07:00Street Gourmet LAstreetgourmetlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02625967020667522977noreply@blogger.comBlogger395125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691661959819164456.post-21759709215698353452017-07-05T18:01:00.001-07:002017-07-05T18:04:05.810-07:00LA Mexicano Book Signing This Saturday, July 8th at Friends and Family<br />
Come out this Saturday to my neighborhood spot, Friends and Family, have some huevos rancheros in chile verde and get a signed copy of my first book, LA Mexicano on Prospect Park Books.<br />
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Bill Esparza Book Signing for LA Mexicano at Friends and Family<br />
Saturday, July 8<br />
12pm to 4pm<br />
5150 Hollywood Bl<br />
323-668-2000streetgourmetlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02625967020667522977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691661959819164456.post-14465789289486909722017-05-15T22:58:00.000-07:002017-05-15T22:59:27.930-07:00Come Join Me at Vroman's in Pasadena on 6/10 for the Release of LA Mexicano. It's an LA Mexicano Party!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This Saturday, April 22nd at 3:30PM, I will be on stage at the Cooking Area 4 at the <b><a href="http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/" target="_blank">LA Times Festival of Books</a></b>, which will take place at the USC Campus. </div>
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My first book, <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/L-Mexicano-Bill-Esparza/dp/1945551003/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492405175&sr=1-7&keywords=mexicano" target="_blank">L.A. Mexicano</a></b> on <b><a href="http://www.prospectparkbooks.com/" target="_blank">Prospect Park Books</a></b> comes out in June, and this event with the amazing <b><a href="http://www.guerrillatacos.com/" target="_blank">chef Wes Avila of Guerrilla Tacos</a></b> is the first opportunity to present this book to the public. L.A. Mexicano is the story of Mexican cuisine in Los Angeles through the Recipes, People and Places that make L.A. the greatest Mexican food scene in the United States. Come out and say hello, grab a copy of the book (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/L-Mexicano-Bill-Esparza/dp/1945551003/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492405175&sr=1-7&keywords=mexicano" target="_blank">which you also can pre-order on amazon.com</a>) and see what chef Wes Avila is cooking up. </div>
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Despierta America at Tacolandia 2016 hails Tacolandia as a taco paradise.<br />
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Hello Taco Lovers! It is I, your tacorazzo here, to announce that LA Weekly's <b>Tacolandia 2017</b> is having a pre-sale from NOW through Sunday, April 2. Click on the link <a href="https://tacolandia.laweekly.com/tickets/" target="_blank">here</a> and enter the promo code: TACOBILL to get discounted pre-sale tickets for General Admission and VIP for $45 and $65, respectively.<br />
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I've selected over 120 vendors from LA, Mexico, Arizona and greater California to satisfy your craving at the greatest taquiza on the planet. <b>Tacolandia 2017</b> takes place on <b>Saturday, June 17th from 3PM to 7PM</b> at LA's founding street and plaza, and birthplace of America's taco craze, Olvera Street. Come to Tacolandia, where all your dreams come true<br />
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I had no idea the James Beard Awards for journalism would be announced today, but thanks to Zach Brooks of Midtown Lunch fame, I learned <a href="http://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/2016-james-beard-award-nominees" target="_blank">I was nominated along with my editor, Lesley Bargar Suter, for our outstanding Taco City issue last summer in the category of Food Coverage in a General-Interest Publication</a>. For the same issue we were also finalists at the Oscars of the magazine industry, the Ellies, which we didn't win, but were honored to be selected from the thousands of articles that were submitted.<br />
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For those that follow me here and don't know, I've been working for Los Angeles Magazine for several years as a contributor to the online Digest and in print, as a food writer, travel writer and as an editor with Lesley Bargar Suter for the Taco City issue.<br />
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I've become well known for the taco coverage with my weekly Essential T column (and for being the curator for LA Weekly's Tacolandia), but regular LA Magazine readers are aware that I cover all of Latin America and street food for this prestigious publication.<br />
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<br />streetgourmetlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02625967020667522977noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691661959819164456.post-86907940461514125022016-03-13T12:58:00.001-07:002016-03-13T12:58:54.961-07:00Maize Diversity from Crop Trust <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/150992430" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="https://vimeo.com/150992430">#CropsInColor: maize diversity</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/croptrust">Crop Trust</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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I'd like you to check out this beautiful video on the diversity of corn in Mexico. In light of the recent attempts by Monsanto to destroy diversity and bring transgenic corn into the Mexican market, threatening corn diversity and purity, I'd like to share this video and ask that you encourage street vendors, restaurants and trucks to use better tortillas.<br />
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Corn sustains life and culture.streetgourmetlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02625967020667522977noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691661959819164456.post-63946160293009087672016-03-10T01:16:00.000-08:002016-03-10T01:16:17.700-08:00Catch me With CNN's Nick Valencia Exploring the Outlaw Bacanora Trail<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my second segment with CNN's Nick Valencia; this time, we headed to the northern state of Sonora to eat some of the most flavorful food in Mexico before drinking outlaw Bacanora in the Rio Sonora. Here, oil drums and used out parts serve as makeshift stills to refine cooked agave Pacifica, foraged in the Rio Sonora region. Check our story out in <a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/03/06/bacanora-valencia-pkg.cnn/video/playlists/most-popular-domestic/" target="_blank">CNN's The Search for Mexican Moonshine.</a>streetgourmetlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02625967020667522977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691661959819164456.post-19552691398873187562016-03-05T09:04:00.001-08:002016-03-05T09:04:39.078-08:00Tacolandia 2016 Pre-Sale Opens This Tuesday, March 8th at 10AM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today on <a href="http://www.kfiam640.com/onair/fork-report-46274/" target="_blank">Neal Saavedra's Fork Report</a> (4:03 PM) I'll be announcing pre-sale ticket dates, which will begin this Tuesday, March 8th at 10AM and will run until Sunday, March 13th at 10PM. <b>LA Weekly's 4th Annual Tacolandia, curated by me, will take place at L.A.'s historic Olvera Street on Saturday, June 11th from 3PM to 7PM</b>. This year, we'll be expanding to well over 100 of the best taco vendors in the U.S. and Mexico at the best and biggest taco festival in the U.S. with world class taqueros, carefully handpicked from Mexico, Arizona, San Diego, Orange County with the biggest group, of course, coming from Los Angeles, the Taco and Mexican food capitol of the USA.<br />
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My good friend, Gustavo Arellano, editor of the OC Weekly and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, wrote in his authoritative treatise on Mexican food in the U.S.A., that King Taco is responsible for the taco truck revolution. It's true, and Arellano is correct in giving credit and respect to this successful chain of beloved taquerias, but Los Angeles Times critic and documentary subject, Jonathan Gold, who has been a huge supporter of the food at King Taco (recently giving their shitty tacos a B+ in his book), goes too far. </div>
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My dear friends at <a href="http://www.galaxytaco.com/" target="_blank"><b>Galaxy Taco</b> </a>are letting me have at their kitchen this Tuesday as part of their <a href="http://sandiego.eater.com/2015/12/8/9873426/galaxy-taco-tuesday-celebrity-chef-san-diego" target="_blank">All-Star Tuesday Takeover series</a>, from 5p.m. on to celebrate some delicious memories of Mexico from my family's hometown of Aguascalientes, the Rio Sonora and one of my favorite tacos to make at home. Plus, the bowl of Mexican street corn of you dreams!<br />
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I'm not a chef, nor am I an All-Star, but I've had tacos in 29 Mexican states, am the curator of LA Weekly's <b><a href="http://microapp.laweekly.com/tacolandia/2015/" target="_blank">Tacolandia</a></b> (which has sold out every year), am an <a href="http://www.magazine.org/asme/ellies-2016-finalists-announced" target="_blank">Ellie nominated Taco editor (For LA Magazine's July Taco City issue)</a>, serve as taco guide to the stars on TV, work as a restaurant consultant and am the world's first <i>tacorazzo</i>.<br />
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Chefs Trey Foshee and Christine Rivera will be in the kitchen as my designated <i>taqueros</i> for the night, cooking up my favorite taste in all of Mexico, the Sonoran burrito de carne con chile (burritos are tacos, too), suckling pig tacos from my hometown, Aguascalientes, topped with a special <i>pico de gallo</i> made with <i>chile manzano</i> and a shrimp in peanut mole taco. I love mole, and am on a mission to share the wealth of Mexican <i>moles</i> with people, not just the 2-3 that are more commonly known.<br />
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Everyone loves street corn, so I've found a unique version in the state of Coahuila, perhaps the elite and esquire capitol of Mexico, that uses Mexican cream and yellow cheese! Yes, I said yellow cheese., and it's one of the best esquires I've ever had. Come join me for some lessor known tacos that are very special to me at Foshee's exciting new project in La Jolla, <b>Galaxy Taco</b>. <br />
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Galaxy Taco Tuesday Takeover @ <b>Galaxy Taco</b>, Tuesday, February 16, 5p.m., 2259 Avenida De La Playa (b/t La Jolla Shores Dr & Paseo Del Ocaso), La Jolla Shores, (858) 228-5655, galaxytaco.com<br />
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Recently I've received emails about tips in Latin America and even to meet up in Baja, well those carefree days of meeting random people (That was a mixed experiment) in Baja and taking people across the border have come to an end. Even finding the time to answer my work emails is non-existent. I've become in demand for work as a writer, consultant, on-screen guide and fixer for TV shows and now have a tour company, <b><a href="http://clubtengohambre.com/" target="_blank">Club Tengo Hambre</a></b>, based in 3 markets. I'm constantly traveling to Latin America for job related activities, and with all these commitments, my free time is rare and my weeks are spoken for; sometimes only allowing a few slots a year for family and dear friends. </div>
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With that said, I'd like to direct you to <b>Club Tengo Hambre</b>, and the carefully curated tours I've developed, which are experiences you'd receive if you were to go there with me. We have a street food and craft beer tour coming up on February 20th where you'll sip on Mexican craft beers poured by the producers paired with legendary street food vendors. Yes, you'll be going to La Guerrerense. </div>
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Our guides treat you like a good friend, and we take out all of the variables: transportation, directions, being in the right place at the right time and knowing the menu, that can prove a challenge to even the most seasoned travelers. Get to know us on February 20th with tostadas and beer. Buen Provecho!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "chronicle text g4 a" , "chronicle text g4 b" , serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px;"><b>El Shuko Truck</b>, 1025 E. 54th St. , South Park, (702) 927-7625, Saturday, December 12 from 2pm to 10pm and Sunday, December 13 from noon to 8pm, Follow them on Twitter and Instagram @ElShukoTruck</span></div>
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My Los Angeles Magazine colleague and cocktail writer extraordinaire, Caroline Pardilla, aka Caroline on Crack, recently included me in a roundup on <a href="http://www.lamag.com/lafood/the-food-related-l-a-snapchatters-you-need-to-follow/" target="_blank">Los Angeles Magazine's Digest of food related Snapchatters to follow</a> for my street food crawls throughout Latin America and mad heckling skills.<br />
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And there's even more as I explore a full array of dining experiences from the finest tables in Latin America, L.A. as well as other international destinations to the colorful world of mom and pop eateries and street food temples.<br />
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Snapchat is a social media platform that I've embraced for its ability to bring followers along for the ride, giving them a genuine experience unobtainable on other media like Instagram and Twitter. So, what are you waiting for? Vamos a comer! @streetgourmetla on Snapchat<br />
<br />streetgourmetlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02625967020667522977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691661959819164456.post-86190916996420970512015-11-03T19:03:00.003-08:002015-11-03T19:03:38.030-08:00Catch My Taco Crawl With Phil Rosenthal and Larry Wilmore on Episode 6 of I'll Have What Phil's Having <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="376" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="http://video.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365592758" width="512"></iframe><br />
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In cased you missed the Los Angeles episode of I'll Have What Phil's Having on PBS, here is the entire episode. In addition to top name chefs and brilliant comedians like Paul Reiser and Martin Short, I appeared on the show leading Phil and Larry Wilmore on a taco crawl in Boyle Heights and the Arts District, eating amazing tacos at Carnitas El Momo, Mariscos Jalisco and Guerrilla Tacos (another top L.A. chef). Enjoy!<br />
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<br />streetgourmetlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02625967020667522977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691661959819164456.post-52920063077204287172015-10-29T22:00:00.000-07:002015-10-29T22:00:28.975-07:00Join Club Tengo Hambre for our 3rd Annual Thanksgiving in Baja on Saturday, November 28th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Skip the cold leftover turkey sandwiches--on second thought, make that comforting sandwich to go and head down to the Valle de Guadalupe on Saturday, November 28th with <a href="http://www.clubtengohambre.com/product/thanksgiving-in-baja-saturday-november-28-2015-2pm/" target="_blank">Club Tengo Hambre for our 3rd annual Thanksgiving in Baja</a> at chef Javier Plascencia's picturesque <b><a href="http://fincaltozano.com/" target="_blank">Finca Altozano</a></b>, with <b><a href="http://vinoslasnubesbc.com/" target="_blank">Las Nubes </a></b>wines poured by oenologist, Victor Segura.<br />
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CTH was just featured in <b><a href="http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-10-29/valle-de-guadalupe-baja-california-surprising-wine-and-food-destination" target="_blank">Condé Nast Traveler's, Valle de Guadalupe: Baja California's Surprising Wine (andFood) Destination</a></b>, which named the Valle de Guadalupe as the next great wine country. CTH was "founded by a group of writers and bloggers living on both
sides of the border, hosts popular events and guided tours centered around the
region's food and wine that will have you feeling like an insider in no time"--David Landsel, Conde Nasté Traveler.<br />
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It's a fantastic opportunity to extend America's comfort food holiday with a quick getaway for couples and friends to the next great wine destination, Valle de Guadalupe, with <b>Club Tengo Hambre</b>.<br />
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Click on the <a href="http://www.clubtengohambre.com/product/thanksgiving-in-baja-saturday-november-28-2015-2pm/" target="_blank">link</a> to purchase your ticket(s) now. <br />
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<!--EndFragment-->streetgourmetlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02625967020667522977noreply@blogger.com0Ensenada Municipality, Baja California, Mexico32.066592299601993 -116.6018486022949232.064910299601991 -116.60437010229492 32.068274299601995 -116.59932710229492tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691661959819164456.post-14456659809883931402015-10-04T16:15:00.001-07:002015-10-05T00:28:41.849-07:00Happy National Taco Day: Here are the Best 25 Tacos in L.A.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the only best taco list you'll ever need, the rankings aren't very important as I didn't really order them, but these are the <a href="http://media.lamag.com/tacos/" target="_blank">best 25 tacos in L.A</a> from <a href="http://www.lamag.com/" target="_blank">Los Angeles Magazine</a>'s Taco issue. Enjoy and Happy National Taco Day!!!streetgourmetlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02625967020667522977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691661959819164456.post-91885167453474669932015-10-02T01:20:00.000-07:002015-10-02T14:17:17.498-07:00Feria de Los Moles 2015, October 4th, 2015, the Largest Mexican Food Festival in the U.S.A. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The 8th Annual <b>Feria de Los Moles</b>, founded by Pedro Ramos and organized by Vesper PR's Mariluz Gonzalez, takes over Olvera Street this Sunday to showcase traditional moles from Puebla, Tlaxcala, Oaxaca and more with delicious <i>adobos </i>(moles with vinegar), <i>pipianes</i> (pumpkin seed moles) and <i>moles. </i>The event is the largest food event, and the largest Mexican food event in the U.S. with live music, special guests like representatives from the City of Atlixco, Puebla which is Celebrating Their
50th Anniversary of <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Atlixc%C3%A1yotl" target="_blank">Huey Atlizcayotl</a>.<br />
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It's a family oriented event in the Los Angeles Mexican community--not your typical divide and conquer tasting event where you and your crazy, gluttonous friends try to rack up a high Instagram food porn count, but an event where you enjoy a plate of mole with friends and family while listening to a nice cumbia. As much as I've always longed for a tasting event to sample lots of mole, I've gotten over it, and have learned to appreciate the Mole Fest for what it is: the best Mexican food event in town for traditional Mexican cuisine. So, here's an easy system for sampling lots of mole.<br />
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First, you must arrive early--10a.m.-- and come with a hungry bunch so you can order multiple plates to share. There are many of our local Oaxacan restaurants there, but give the home cooks a shot, especially those from Puebla, because they have been some of the strongest stands at the event. Not to mention that last year, mole royalty showed up; chef Liz Galicia of <b><a href="http://elmuraldelospoblanos.com/" target="_blank">El Mural de Los Poblanos</a></b> came to cook the refined Pueblan moles from one of Puebla's most famous restaurants. Anything from Tlaxcala is a must, because you've never tried them and they're in the same league as the Pueblan and Oaxacan varieties.<br />
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<i>Miss Mole, 2014, Briana Marquez</i><br />
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But make room for mole caderas, a specialty of Tehuacán,Puebla; it was the most memorable dish from the 2014 edition of Feria de Los Moles and puts <i>birria</i> to shame. The flavor profile is similar to a birria but richer and packed with string beans. The dish usually involves fresh slaughtered young goats that are prepared immediately after a ritual killing as part of a festival that takes place on October 20th in Tehuacán called <b><a href="http://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/la-matanza-de-los-chivos-cebados-una-tradicion-en-tehuacan-puebla.html" target="_blank">Festival de la Matanza</a>.</b><br />
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<br />streetgourmetlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02625967020667522977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691661959819164456.post-61902222130597515782015-09-29T23:58:00.002-07:002015-09-29T23:59:39.890-07:00My Ultimate Guide to Regional Mexican Cuisine in L.A. on First We Feast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ever since Pulitzer Prize winning L.A. Times Food Critic, Jonathan Gold, <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/a-federal-case-2150828" target="_blank">wrote in a 2007 LA Weekly post</a> that L.A. practically has every region in Mexico represented with the exception of Chiapas, many other writers around the country have assumed this to be gospel. This was never true, and at the time, the article even mentioned regions that were not represented at all, as some of the restaurants counted were not regional restaurants.<br />
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So, from this day forward, consider the record corrected in <a href="http://firstwefeast.com/eat/the-essential-guide-to-regional-mexican-food-in-los-angeles/" target="_blank">The Essential Guide to Regional Mexican Food in Los Angeles, a post I recently did for <b>First We Feast</b></a>. And while we don't have all regions represented, our depth goes beyond provincial dishes, making Los Angeles second to none in the U.S.<br />
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<i>East L.A. Independence Day Parade</i><br />
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I hope you enjoy the guide and get a chance to dig in to all these delicious regional gems in Los Angeles, the second largest Mexican city in the world.<br />
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<i>L.A.'s first legit northern Mexican taco cart</i><br />
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It just doesn't stop here in L.A.We are gaining new traditional, regional vendors each week, whether they've been around a month like <b>Tacos La Carreta</b>, or 15 years, hidden from mainstream food media.<br />
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As a writer for Los Angeles Magazine, restaurant consultant, fixer for food television and editor of this blog, it has been my job to find great shit. Whether it be the streets of L.A., Mexico, Brasil, Guatemala, or anywhere else in Latin America, I find shit, professionally. <br />
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These past few years have seen increased activity as many jobs that come up, as well as for my beat at L.A. Magazine, require me to find new places, constantly. And, to the petty food critic out there who has begun to trivialize my contributions to you diners, all I have to say is, what is your job? Apparently, to not find shit.<br />
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<i>2 Generations of badness, Jose Morales Jr. and Sr.</i><br />
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My latest find I just published in Los Angeles Magazine's Digest is about <a href="http://www.lamag.com/digestblog/essential-t-real-deal-carne-asada-chorreadas-at-la-carreta/" target="_blank">Compton's <b>Tacos La Carreta</b></a>, and it's one of the best, a real <i>carne asada</i> vendor doing special tacos from Mazatlan, Sinaloa. And, this is my pick for you to explore this Sunday, as that's currently the only day they're out.<br />
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<i>True carne asada is cooked over mesquite</i><br />
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Finding great Latin American food only helps to lift up Los Angeles as a dining destination and to reinforce its status as the best city for Latin American dining in the U.S., especially for Mexican cuisine. So, that's what we're going to keep on doing. I find shit.<br />
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On that note, let me welcome my new contributors, Juan Ismerio and Cerpa Rodion, who took these fantastic photos, and will be helping me update Street Gourmet LA more often and allow Street Gourmet LA to be in more than one place at a time. Scouts are for louts, no, these talented young Latinos aren't scouts, but they'll be contributing in a number of ways including an upgrade to a real website, attending events I can't make, and shooting much better quality pictures.<br />
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This past week we were able to attend events in Brasil, Los Angeles: the L.A. Times Taste event, Alex's Lemonade, the Festival Chileno in Camarillo and this top notch taco cart, <b>Tacos La Carreta</b> in Compton, as a team.<br />
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<i>Chorreadas, Mazatlan-style vampiros spiked with a splash of hot, unrefined lard</i><br />
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These <i>chorreadas</i>, <i>vampiros</i>, <i>tacos </i>and <i>quesadillas </i>are game changers; do yourself a flavor and pay them a visit this Sunday.<br />
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<b>Tacos La Carreta</b>, 413 N. Wilmington Ave., Compton, Sundays only from 3:30pm to
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<b>On the Road</b> is a weekly series here on Street Gourmet LA, where we share a favorite bite from our travels, domestic and abroad, in the finest dining rooms around the world and at the most humble of urban and rural stands as well as people's homes.<br />
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This week was just another typical week around the office, Michelin star restaurants in Jardins and Vila Medeiros, São Paulo as well as delicious <i>pasteís</i> (pastries) in Liberdade (São Paulo's Japanese neighborhood); Los Angeles Time's Taste event, Alex's Lemonade Stand, the Festival Chileno in Camarillo for <i>completos </i>(Chilean hot dogs) and pisco sours, Sinaloan-style tacos (exciting new post coming soon on Los Angeles Magazine) and a bowl of homemade <i>menudo blanco</i> by a family from San Juan de Abajo, Nayarit.<br />
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Chava and his wife, Hildelisa, cook up a light and tasty white menudo from southern Nayarit, influenced by the nearby state of Jalisco. While this wasn't the greatest dish of this rather substantial week in food, it was a reminder of how nice it is to sit down with a family and enjoy simple, delicious and thoughtful cooking.<br />
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The delicate stock is different from most white menudos I've encountered--transparent and light in flavor until chopped onions, jalapeños, <i>yerba buena </i>(as is typical in Jalisco) and menudo mix spices are layered to taste. The ample cuts of beef include <i>al dente</i> book tripe, beef tendon, and a marrow rich lower leg bone draped in crunchy bits of cartilage.<br />
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The family is the best of the many houses preparing <i>menudo blanco</i>, all from San Juan de Abajo, in Lincoln Heights and Montecito Heights where snack kings <b>Raspados Nayarit</b> do business. It's another example of the regional enclaves that exist in L.A. (and why L.A. has the best Mexican food in the country), where everyone knows each other, and each year and few more from their home town show up ready to work, but not until they've had a hot bowl of <i>menudo blanco</i> from San Juan de Abajo. <br />
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<i>1) All-American baked enchiladas</i></div>
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This time on Mexican Food Explained, a photo essay to unlock the mysteries surrounding the debates about what's Mexican, what's Mexican-American, and what's All-American, as we tackle <i><b>enchiladas</b></i>, a dish beloved by all. </div>
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Think of <i>enchiladas</i> as being the opposite of tacos, where the sauce is what's most important, and the filling is simple, usually chicken or cheese. They can be baked, fried to order, and either rolled or doubled over before the covering sauce is ladled on top. In America, it's melted cheese and in Mexico it's a dressing of cream, salty cheese, raw vegetables, fried potatoes and carrots, pork rinds and whole chicken legs on the side. </div>
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Because the sauce or mole is so important, the main element, the sauce or mole is homemade in traditional Mexican <i>enchiladas</i>, as opposed to the Mexican-American or American, where melted cheese and the sides: rice and beans, play a bigger role. </div>
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Whichever your fancy, you'll find this photo essay handy in knowing what style of <i>enchiladas</i> are on your plate. </div>
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1) <b>Americanized Enchiladas</b>, are stuffed with chicken, usually, then covered with a canned or homemade sauce, American cheese and baked in an oven. These are your go to Tupperware party, Betty Crocker, Rachel Ray and Guy Fieri variety. </div>
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<i>2) Mexican-American Enchiladas Verdes at Casa Vega, Sherman Oaks, CA</i></div>
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<i>Enchiladas verdes at Tere's Mexican Food, Hollywood, CA</i></div>
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2) <b>Mexican-American Enchiladas</b> come in a combo plate, with rice and beans and are either covered with Mexican cream or melted cheese, in a canned or homemade sauce, usually red or green. They are made with corn and sometimes flour tortillas and are eaten as a complete meal.</div>
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<i>Chef Rick Bayless dancing about enchiladas</i></div>
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<i>3) Culture Appropriating chef Enchiladas; Enchiladas Potosinas at Frontera Grill</i></div>
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3)<b> Culture Appropriating Non-Latino Chef Enchiladas</b>, are when chefs visit Mexico and pester working cooks for their tips and ingredients during service--recipes, too, and then come back home to "elevate" the dish with their "superior" skills, market ingredients and deep understating of <i>enchiladas</i>. </div>
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They usually miss the whole point of the dish which is the sauce or <i>mole</i>, and do some bullshit like the 3 whales coming out of the water plating as seen above at Frontera Grill. It's an enchilada, wey; where's the sauce? Those are <i>empanadas</i> with <i>guacamole</i>. Sas!</div>
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4) <b>Mexican Enchiladas</b>, are rolled or doubled corn tortillas filled with chicken or cheese, covered in a homemade <i>salsa verde</i>, <i>salsas roja</i> or <i>mole</i>. The red and green styles change from state to state in terms of tortilla, chiles used for the salsas and regional cheese used. Mole is used in southern states like Oaxaca and Puebla, but the red and green<i> enchiladas</i> are made there, too. The classic style are just rolled corn tortillas with cheese or chicken, drowned in sauce or <i>mole</i>, and dressed with cream, salty cheese and maybe some sliced raw onions; all elements on the plate are for eating the sauce or <i>mole.</i> (Mole is not a sauce, so deal with it!) These are pure, minimalist enchiladas to serve as a nice, comforting supper.</div>
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<i>A Real Enchilada Potosina Vendor in San Luis Potosi</i></div>
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In states like Michoacan and San Luis Potosi, corn tortillas are doubled over and filled with a little local cheese and then fried in a homemade enchilada sauce; cubed carrots and potatoes are fried in the same sauce and the whole plate is covered with pickled pork rinds or chicken, then lettuce, cream and salty cheese to soak up the sauce. </div>
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<i>Enchiladas Rojas at the Feria de San Marcos in Aguascalientes</i></div>
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The restaurant style are more carefully plated while <i>fondas</i> make a delicious mess of hot and cool ingredients. Once again, the regional varieties can have subtle or more profound differences, but assume there are 32 principal styles of <i>enchiladas verdes</i>, for all 31 states and Mexico City, and possibly more sub-regional versions. Same for the <i>rojas</i>, but <i>mole</i> would be confined to the states where mole is more prevalent.<br />
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Mexican enchiladas are served at <i>cenadurias</i>, or supper houses, <i>fondas</i> and at street stands and vary from a light supper to a full meal if you're getting <i>placeras</i> or <i>potosinas</i>, with all the fixings.<br />
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5) <b>Modern-Mexican Chef Enchiladas</b>:<i> "If you want enchiladas, I'd recommend a market or fonda nearby, maybe we could go to my mom's if I had the time, but I'm a chef trying to do serious, creative work, and I wouldn't be such a pendejo as to try to make enchiladas better than a 3rd generation cook who's been doing it for 30 years, every day." "I don't make enchiladas, cabron!" </i></div>
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<i>Moles at the Mercado Benito Juarez in Oaxaca</i><br />
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Mole<i> is </i>easy to find in L.A., but often is misunderstood by fans of mole north of the border. Mole is the dish, that's it, everything else is there for eating mole: the rice, the vegetables the beans the tortillas and the proteins. No, we never braise the meat in mole, no mole is not a sauce and yes there should be more mole on the plate than anything else. I'm talking to you chef, who only took one lesson on <i>mole zacatecano</i> and then put a dot of mole on the plate; I'm talking to you Yelper, who complained about the chicken--who cares about the chicken, it's about the mole.<br />
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Oaxaca and Puebla are most famous for their moles, and no doubt Oaxaca has more moles that any other state, but that doesn't make them the best moles, or the most important. Moles are in practically every state, and while some states have only a few or one typical mole, states like Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, Guerrero, Michoacan and more have amazing moles. Zacatecas has a few including their sweet <i>asado de boda</i>, which is as good as any in Mexico. Oaxaca and Puebla are just very good at mole PR, and food tourism in general.<br />
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Elevate you mole knowledge with my <a href="http://www.lamag.com/digestblog/l-a-s-ultimate-guide-to-mole/" target="_blank">Ultimate Guide to Mole in L.A.</a>, in this week's Los Angeles Magazine Disgest blog. Provecho!streetgourmetlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02625967020667522977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691661959819164456.post-49876195971433942962015-08-27T01:02:00.001-07:002015-08-27T01:08:58.413-07:005th Los Angeles Food and Wine, August 27-30 Brings Top Chefs, Wine and the Roots to Downtown LA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The <a href="http://www.lafw.com/" target="_blank">5th Los Angeles Food and Wine Festival</a> begins this afternoon through Sunday with 2 dozen food events featuring the best chefs in town and some top chefs from around the country thrown in, plus plenty of seasonal wines to toast to the end of summer the start of the big event season. This year has a few surprises in store to add a little funk and spice in the mix.<br />
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The Roots will be featured this year as the marquee musical act and I'm happy to report that we're going to see participation this year by a pair of Alta California chefs, Ray Garcia and Carlos Salgado, to properly represent L.A.'s top Latino chefs. The Night Market, a popular event at LA Food and Wine will showcase the who's who of our young Asian-American chef scene with chefs like Perry Cheung, Jet Tila, Alvin Cailan, Chris Oh and Tin Vuong. <br />
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It's the most star studded food event in Los Angeles and always a great time to get to know some of the restaurants you've not visited--Union, Alimento, Slapfish and Birch are on my short list--while sipping white wine in the heart of the city's restaurant scene--Downtown LA. <br />
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<b>Los Angeles Food and Wine</b>, Downtown LA, August 27-30, <a href="http://lafw.com/">lafw.com</a> for tickets and event informationstreetgourmetlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02625967020667522977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691661959819164456.post-74573008516453587842015-08-26T01:07:00.001-07:002015-08-26T01:07:16.146-07:00The Weekend Seafood Tower of Power at Vertical Wine Bistro <br />
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<i>The ultimate seafood tower at Vertical Wine Bistro by chef Laurent Quenioux</i><br />
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There's no shortage these days in L.A. of fantastic raw bars and extravagant seafood towers; for me I'm more than content to stick with my go to neighborhood option: The Hungry Cat. What lured me to Pasadena was <a href="http://www.bistrolq.com/about" target="_blank">chef Laurent Quenioux</a>'s addition of a pair of my favorite Mexican clams, <i>pata de mula </i>(bloody clams) and <i>chocolatas</i> (chocolate clams) at his weekend raw bar menu at the <b><a href="http://www.verticalwinebistro.com/index.html" target="_blank">Vertical Wine Bistro</a></b>.<br />
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The products that Quenioux is plating for his seafood towers are impressive but there's so much more going on here--it simply is the bet seafood tower in town.<br />
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From quality oysters and whelks to abalone and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crangon_crangon" target="_blank">crevette grise</a></i>, all seafood items are as fresh as they can be, and thankfully delicacies like lobster and crab are cooked just right to preserve their delicate texture and flavor.<br />
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<i>Spot prawns with fried heads</i><br />
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The spot prawns are served with deep fried shrimp heads to follow the cool soft flesh of Santa Barbara's finest catch with a savory crunch from the heads and antennae. <i> </i><br />
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<i>Sea urchin from the raw bar at Vertical Wine Bistro</i><br />
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Of course we're adding on the sea urchin, and for dullards who think that sea urchin is too trendy, do shut up; sea urchin is a local seafood product and belongs on the menu of any self respecting chef.<br />
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<i>Go all in with the Tier #3 for $150</i><br />
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As for the <i>pata de mula</i> and the <i>chocolata</i> clams, Quenioux leaves everyone in the dust on both sides of the border. Other high end seafood restaurants have served these prized products naturally with standard condiments, in Mexico they are fresh as can be but adhere to a limited number of preparations. I love having these clams any way I can but Quenioux does adds his own flavors that are the best compliments to these clams I've experienced, adding balance to the strong flavored <i>pata de mula</i> and teasing up the flavors of the <i>chocolata</i> and the abalone. I was too distracted with claw crackers, great wine, company and making sure I tried everything to ask about the preparation.<br />
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Get the top tier, order some uni, ask if there are any specials and bring some friends to get to work on L.A.'s best and most dynamic seafood tower.<br />
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Vertical Wine Bistro, <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">70 N Raymond Ave., Pasadena, </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;">(626) 795-3999, Seafood towers are only available Thursday thru Saturday, </span><i>verticalwinebistro.com/LQuenioux.html<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;"> </span></i><br />
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We now have 47 reasons to love the taco scene here in Los Angeles with updated <a href="http://www.lamag.com/digestblog/tacopedia-a-complete-taco-encyclopedia-of-l-a/" target="_blank">L.A. Tacopedia</a>, a run down of the L.A. taco styles you can easily find around the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. If you missed the July taco issue you can discover the <a href="http://media.lamag.com/tacos/" target="_blank">25 best tacos in L.A.</a> on the Los Angeles magazine website, along with other articles from our epic taco issue. The 25 best tacos aren't in any real order, as they are all so different, but just know that these are currently the best 25 tacos you can have in L.A. Let me know what you think, and <i>provecho</i>!streetgourmetlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02625967020667522977noreply@blogger.com0