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LET’S CHAT ABOUT IT Picture this: it is the day before Spring Break of senior year starts, you have to be up for a flight to Nashville at 4:00am, and you’ve got tickets for an 8:00pm rock ‘n’ roll aerial burlesque show in the Lower East Side. You pick a Mexican fusion restaurant with $5Continue reading “Tostones”

LET’S CHAT ABOUT IT I’m not the kind of person that can just casually enjoy things — I throw myself entirely into everything I have ever liked. I dedicate hours to learning about it, researching, reading articles, watching videos, because I have to know everything about it. So, naturally, after I tried birria de resContinue reading “Birria: My Latest Obsession”

LET’S CHAT ABOUT IT I’ve always been an adventurous eater. Since I was little, I was never afraid to try new things or to eat like a full-grown adult. One of my parents’ favorite stories to tell about me as a child is about a time that we were out to dinner with some familyContinue reading “Trying New Things”

LET’S CHAT ABOUT IT Alright, it’s about time. It was unavoidable and inevitable because, even though she’s far from Mexican, she’s without a doubt delicious. I consider myself one of the luckier white people in this world who was actually exposed to real Mexican food before Taco Bell. I was never that big of aContinue reading “Taco Bell”

LET’S CHAT ABOUT IT America is known as “the melting pot” — the country prides itself on encouraging and appreciating many different cultures that all mingle and combine into one larger identity of “American.” Although this ideology has proven to be incredibly problematic and politically hypocritical throughout history and, unfortunately, still today, the food choicesContinue reading “Cultural Fusion in Food”

LET’S CHAT ABOUT IT Here’s the whitest thing I will ever say: I thoroughly enjoy supermarket, plastic-bagged Mission brand flour tortillas. A sin, I know… but I am who I am. I can probably count on one hand (okay, that’s an exaggeration, I’d need at least two) the amount of times that I have hadContinue reading “Corn Tortillas”

LET’S CHAT ABOUT IT First and foremost, happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you were able to show your loved ones how much you love them today in one way or another. Personally, I got myself Chipotle for lunch — self love is the most important kind of love after all! Now onto more important things.Continue reading “Cultural Appropriation That… We’re Cool With?”

LET’S CHAT ABOUT IT Americans as a whole are inherently xenophobic. This generalization has remained an unfortunate yet accurate stereotype since the nation’s beginnings and becomes more prominent each time a wave of immigration hits. Even the most liberal, accepting citizens of the land of the free fall victim to a subconscious, omnipresent fear ofContinue reading “Taco USA: What’s So Cosmic About a Burrito?”

LET’S CHAT ABOUT IT Bon Appetit is one of the most — if not the most — prestigious food publications in the United States. Like all successful businesses nowadays, they have extended their traditional magazine-based content to Youtube. The video above is one of chef Rick Martinez’s recipes. Rick is amazing in and of himself,Continue reading “Bon Appetit’s Rick”

LET’S CHAT ABOUT IT Have you ever seen such a gorgeous picture? I sure haven’t. Guacamole is one of God’s greatest creations, don’t @ me. Side note: does anyone even say the full word “guacamole” anymore? Let’s just refer to it as guac here. So, I love guac — all kinds of guac: store-bought guac,Continue reading “Guacamole”