TheBanyanTree: The Great Taco Search of 2008

[Mike Pingleton]

The best tacos I ever ate I purchased from a street vendor in Matamoros, Mexico.  He cooked everything right there on his little taqueria cart, and I ate them while standing curbside watching the Charro Days parade pass by.

They were quite simple - carne and peppers and some onions.  Not like Taco Night at home, where we have sour cream, chopped tomatoes, thinly sliced lettuce, and the Kraft cheese blend for tacos.  Come to think of it, those tacos aren't too shabby either.

Why they were the best tacos may have been that whole synergy of eating another country's food while in that country, while watching the macho charros on their high-stepping caballos, and the pretty senioritas in their lace-heavy dresses. The heady smell and sound of seasoned meat on a little grill. Me not caring about any possible gastro-intestinal consequences. Damn the torpdoes - another taco, por favor.  Make it two.

-Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: Monique Colver <monique.colver at gmail.com>
To: thebanyantree at remsset.com
Sent: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:46:45 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: TheBanyanTree: The Great Taco Search of 2008

WARNING: This post contains no political content, unless you consider tacos
in and of themselves to be political.

                I crave the tacos of Mexico, where one can get a plate of
carnitas tacos and a cerveza for a few pesos, or whatever they're using for
money these days.