When a social media post about Mexican food went viral, I realized that a culture’s cuisine is a tender, vulnerable thing. It’s an open love letter to a way of life, one that is available for ...

Of the Mexican restaurants that exist in the U.S., 22% are considered “fast food," compared to 12% that specialize in serving tacos, and another 8% that are classified as food trucks. Six ...

Both my parents were born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and moved to East Los Angeles in the early ’60s, as part of the first waves of rural Mexican migrants in the city.

Put differently, Mexican restaurants account for the vast majority of Hispanic or Latino restaurants of any kind. And although many non-Mexican restaurants also offer Mexican food, the reverse is less ...

Mexican food is so important to us that the first issue of the then-Los Angeles Daily Times, published in December 1881, featured an ad by one Hilario Preciado for his restaurant: “favorite ...

He's helped launch a food movement that reframed what Mexican food is, and what it is not — a monolith. It is the duck mole at Julio Hernandez's Maiz de La Vida in the Gulch. It's the scallop ...