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 ...

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 ...

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 ...