food preparation

Salsa Network (REPLAY)

Today’s episode originally published in JUNE 2018. It’s also my father’s birthday. So today we take some time to look back at the connections that brought my siblings and I to this country. We go back to a time when I went to a World Cup match with my Dad. The year was 1994. It…

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LOL – Laugh out Lengua

Not that many people, at least in America, are familiar with this tender type of meat. Especially on a taco. Lengua translates to tongue. It’s beef tongue. I’m going to tell you a little bit about this meat. I’m also going to tell you a bit about how this meat and the many steps to…

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Taco Truck Exhaust

On today’s show, Isidro takes us back to the time his sister started driving. Recall in a previous episode – Trust the Tortilla -, he told us of a time when his sister would take the neighborhood kids to school in a car though she was too young to legally drive. In this episode, Isidro…

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Ops Between the Wheels

Today we dive into some of the operations within the wheels of his parent’s taco truck and all the work that went into making it run smoothly. It’s not an easy task to run a taco truck and Isidro’s parents did it every day, 7 days a week. Hours of prep along with early mornings…

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