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Where are America's Best Tacos? - Brooklyn's Sunset Park vs. Austin, Texas

Posted Jul 8th 2009 4:00PM by Jose Ralat Maldonado
Filed under: East Coast, Restaurants, Beef, Cheese, Southern States, Meat, Local Eating

Tacodeli's "cowboy" taco. Photo: Portal and Friends/Flickr

The taco may be the perfect food. Portable and unassuming, not to mention affordable, it proffers fuss-free enjoyment for most everyone. This Slashfoodie's recent move to Austin, Texas, after residing in the taco mecca of Sunset Park, Brooklyn for three years has led him to sample Lone Star State tacos whenever possible. Naturally, a mano a mano Austin versus Sunset Park contest was inevitable.

Austin's taco scene skews toward what some might call "gringo fancy," characterized by the prominence of flour tortillas and nontraditional ingredients like bison and basil -- and fish, which is found infrequently in Sunset Park.

Brooklyn tacos, on the other hand, pay homage to one of the neighborhood's main demographics, Mexican immigrants, with tacos wrapped in two corn tortillas. They typically contain nothing more than a meat filling -- goat, lengua (tongue) and cabeza (brains) are among commonly selected options -- minced raw onion, cilantro, a spritz of lime and an optional flurry of queso fresco (white cheese).

Poll and more after the jump.

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The New York Times in 60 seconds: Chains, cakes and chicken canzanese

Posted May 4th 2008 3:00PM by Ellen Slattery
Filed under: Newspapers, In Sixty Seconds

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Take your kids to the taco truck

Posted Mar 25th 2008 2:29PM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Culinary Kids, On the Blogs, Fast Food

During the years when I was going to school in Walla Walla, there wasn't much in the way of good food in town. Our options were the standard fast food fare, some greasy diners and a few taco trucks scattered around town (it was before the food and wine revolution that they've had over the last few years). However, the taco trucks offered some really fantastic fare, making me forever a fan of fresh tortillas wrapped around spicy beef, chicken or pork.

What got me thinking about taco trucks was this post on Serious Eats by Matthew Amster-Burton, in which he takes his four-year-old daughter to Tacos El Asadero, Seattle's best known taco truck that actually serves their grub on a bus instead of from a truck window. He got her a lengua taco, which impressed me, because I don't know any other kids who would willingly eat tongue. Apparently it made an impression on the little Amster-Burton, because when it was all over, she asked for a taco truck to be parked in front of their house. Don't we all wish for that?

Okay kids, it's time to dish. I know that there have got to be bunches of you who have taco truck stories. Let's hear them!

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Where are America's Best Tacos? - Brooklyn's Sunset Park vs. Austin, Texas

The New York Times in 60 seconds: Chains, cakes and chicken canzanese

Take your kids to the taco truck

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