Tacos Guadalajara
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Taco culture in Mexico is deeply, proudly regional—as this guide and tribute to the taco sellers of Guadalajara proves.
A companion to earlier books on Mexico City and Tijuana, this book provides a tour of outstanding eats in Mexico's second city. Guadalajara is the capital of Jalisco state, which at least one native contributing to this book calls "Land of Tacos and Taqueros," while staking a claim to specialties such as birria, lonches, carne en su jugo, tortas ahogados, and the indisputable tacos de cabeza.
The thirty-five tacosellers featured here are divided into those operating by day and those operating by night. Dramatically immediate photography showcases the food, the cooks, and the city's street scenes.
Profiles of each establishment document its histories and that of the people who run them. Elvia Palafox, known as La Tía (the aunt), rises at 4 each morning to make fifteen different taco fillings; she tried using a machine to make her tortillas, but her customers complained right away. Super Tacos Rafa, run by Rafa and his wife, Mary, has been in business since 1986, with an emphasis on griddle-fried tacos made from offal and some dashes of showmanship from Rafa's knife skills.
Also included is a fold-out poster highlighting six vendors renowned for their tortas ahogados, pork-filled sandwiches drowned in red chile sauce.
This volume is in Spanish and English: the English text appears in a separate section at the back of the book.
Padded vinyl-bound hardcover. Color photographs throughout. In Spanish and in English.
