| Mexican Tacos
Contains onion and cilantro.
In Mexico, the word taco is a
generic term like the English word sandwich. A taco is simply a tortilla wrapped
around a filling. Like a sandwich, the filling can be made with almost anything
and prepared in many different ways (anything that can be rolled inside a
tortilla becomes a taco). The contents of a taco can vary according to the
geographical region you are eating them. The taco can be eaten as an entree or
snack. They are made with soft corn or fried corn tortillas folded over.
The first “taco bash” in the
history of New Spain was documented by none other than Bernal Diaz del Castillo.
Hernan Cortes organized this memorable banquet in Coyoacan for his captains,
with pigs brought all the way from Cuba. It would, however, be a mistake to
think that Cortes invented the taco, since anthropologists have discovered
evidence that inhabitants of the lake region of the Valley of Mexico ate tacos
filled with small fish, such as acosiles and charales. The fish were replaced by
small live insects and ants in the states of Morelos and Guerrero, while locusts
and snails were favorite fillings in Puebla and Oaxaca.
|