When you’re living on a budget, there is a certain food that will never fail you. I’m talking of course about the taco. The taco has seemingly infinite variations, incarnations and iterations. Just about anything can be a taco, which roughly means “sandwich”. There are hard-shelled tacos, soft tacos, flour tacos, corn tacos – and that’s just the delivery method! Stuff just about anything into a tortilla and you can call it a taco (as long as you don’t roll it into a burrito). No matter what form they come in, we love them for the same reasons we hated our high school nemesis: they’re cheap and fast.
Not all tacos are created equal, however. If you have never had the pleasure of living either on the West Coast or in the Southwest (or better yet in Mexico!) you may not understand what all the fuss is about. Personally, my … Continue reading




