THE GOURMAND L.A. TACO TRAIL
Blaze your L.A. Taco Trail By Melissa Curtin
ONE TACO, TWO TACOS, THREE TACOS, FOUR. IMPOSSIBLE TO EAT JUST ONE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU LIVE IN LOS ANGELES AND BLISTERING TORTILLAS STUFFED WITH SEAFOOD OR MEAT CAN BE FOUND ON STREET CARTS, TEMPORARY SETUPS, TAQUERIAS, AND RESTAURANTS CREATING THEIR OWN SPIN ON THIS FAST FOOD STAPLE. TACOS ARE INGRAINED IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CULTURE.
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ave you thought about where the fun sounding word “taco” came from? Miners in the late 1800’s brought tin lunch pails into the mines and sometimes used them to smuggle out high-grade ore while other miners brought their lunches wrapped in cloth bundles. It is said that Mexican miners were the first to describe rolled, filled tortillas as “tacos,” which originally meant a cigar-style explosive. The nickname ‘taco,’ for the small charges of gunpowder wrapped in paper, caught on. Searching out tacos is a love language or a way of life in LA. Blaze your own Taco Trail.
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