Thursday 17 May 2012

Where Did The Taco Come From?

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Jeffrey M. Pilcher, professor of history at the University of Minnesota, has traveled around the world eating tacos. For the past 20 years, he has investigated the history, politics and evolution of Mexican food, including how Mexican silver miners likely invented the taco, how Mexican Americans in the Southwest reinvented it, and how businessman Glen Bell mass-marketed it to Anglo palates via the crunchy Taco Bell shell.

2 comment(s):

Ima said...

Great...now I want a taco at 10 o'clock in the morning.

Gareth said...

Historians who can't decide whether to use the past or present tense drive me crazy.