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The origins of the taco are not precisely known, and etymologies for the culinary usage of the word are generally theoretical. [3] [4] Taco in the sense of a typical Mexican dish comprising a maize tortilla folded around food is just one of the meanings connoted by the word, according to the Real Academia Española, publisher of Diccionario de la Lengua Española. [5]
A hard-shell taco from a taqueria in Sacramento, CA. While many different versions of hard-shell tacos exist, the most common form of the hard-shell taco is served as a crisp-fried corn tortilla filled with seasoned ground beef, cheese, lettuce, and sometimes tomato, onion, salsa, sour cream, and avocado or guacamole. [2]
Pilcher, Jeffrey M. Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food (Oxford University Press, 2012) online review; Pilcher, Jeffrey M. Que Vivan Los Tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican National Identity (1998) Hernandez-Rodriguez, R. Food Cultures of Mexico. Recipes, Customs, and Issues. (Greenwood, 2021).
However, the basket tacos as they are known today have their origin in the 1950s in the town of San Vicente Xiloxochitla, 10 km southwest of Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl, known as la cuna (the cradle) or la capital (the capital) del taco de canasta. [6] [7] Originally, tacos sudados were a dish that was consumed after a day's work in the fields. [8]
In the 1895 Diccionario de Mejicanismos by Feliz Ramos i Duarte, burrito was identified as the regional name given in the Mexican state of Guanajuato to what is known as a taco in other regions: [12] [13] Burrito: Tortilla arrollada, con carne u otra cosa dentro, que en Yucatán llaman coçito, y en Cuernavaca y en Mexico, taco.
Taco Bell Corp. [5] is an American multinational chain of fast food restaurants founded in 1962 by Glen Bell (1923–2010) in Downey, California. [6] Taco Bell is a subsidiary of Yum!
Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food is a non-fiction book by Jeffrey Pilcher, published by the Oxford University Press in 2012. Pilcher discusses the history of Mexican cuisine and Tex Mex cuisine as well as perceptions of the concept of "Mexican food" around the world.
The taquito or little taco was referred to in the 1917 Preliminary Glossary of New Mexico Spanish, with the word noted as a "Mexicanism" used in New Mexico. [8] The modern definition of a taquito as a rolled-tortilla dish was given in 1929 in a book of stories of Mexican people in the United States aimed at a youth audience, where the dish was noted as a particularly popular offering of ...