[Aztlan] Mexican cuisine

[Lawrence Lo]

I feel pretty lucky that I live in a place with a large Hispanic
population so I can get fairly authentic Mexican and El Salvadoran cuisine
here in the San Francisco Bay Area.  However, the style tends to be
northern Mexican.  It's pretty hard to find cochinita pibil or mole
poblano.

We also lay the claim to the most maligned "Mexican" food...the giant
burrito.  That gut buster was supposedly invited in the Mission district
in San Francisco.  It's not Mexican by any stretch of the imagination.

A taqueria that I frequent makes really good caldo de camaron.  They also
have menudo but being the squeamish American I have yet to try that.

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Lawrence Lo

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> What is known as "Mexican" food over most of the US is "Tex-Mex,"
> northern Mexican cuisine as it developed in Texas, with adaptations
> to new beans (pintos), cheeses (Cheddars), etc., and new appetites
> (meat-eating Texans).  It has become a genre of its own.  In fact,
> the saying in Texas used to be "You just can't get good Mexican food
> in Mexico."
>
> What I miss most in this cuisine is the soups!  They are among the
> best items on the menu in Mexico, but you almost never see a soup in
> a US Mexican restaurant.  There is an occasional exception.  I had a
> great sopa de mariscos the other day in Tallahassee, of all places!
>
> Nick Hopkins
>
>
>
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