"tacos" news and stories

Each Thursday, we round up a selection of scrumptious links from our friends over at YumSugar. Here's what they've got cooking this week:

• From hops to tap: catch a glimpse of how one brewery brings out the beer.
• Is your scotch schooling up to snuff?
• Baby back ribs heart blueberries.
• You could use flour tortillas, but then this flank steak might go all viva la revolución on you.
• San Francisco declared war over pie.
• Cat Cora can make you a better home cook in eight easy steps.

Each Thursday, we round up a selection of scrumptious links from our friends over at YumSugar. Here's what they've got cooking this week:

• What you should have made and munched on yesterday, Cinco de Mayo: stuffed poblanos.
• If you don't do this, you should.
• Face it, we all love Velveeta, but why use real cheese next time chile con queso is on the menu.
• Show mom some appreciation by staying in for brunch.
• Al fresco shindigs, for the win!
• The have-it-your-way cup o' joe.
• These easy tacos are perfect for any meal, not just dinner.

Tacos are as synonymous with Austin, Texas, as the South by Southwest Festival. The breakfast taco, the energizing early rising big brother, is to Austin what the bagel is to New York. A breakfast taco is required eating in Austin, available at regional fast-food chains and mom-and-pop shops to mini-empires and trailers. They are Austinites' go-to, on-the-fly morning meal.

Just don't confuse them with breakfast burritos, those bursting-at-the-seams paramours of Californians. They might have similar components, but breakfast burritos are all-in-one leviathans of a tortilla envelope found only in a few Austin restaurants. They are clearly in the minority.

A breakfast taco can include bacon, egg, cheese, potato, refried beans, chorizo, barbacoa and migas, all hugged by a flour tortilla. Of the myriad amalgams, bacon, egg and cheese as well as chorizo and egg are big crowd-pleasers. Migas tacos, fried corn tortilla strips with eggs, chiles, tomatoes and cheese, are also much adored. But eggs aren't sacrosanct. "Our biggest breakfast seller, the Otto, doesn't have eggs in it," says Roberto Espinosa, owner of Tacodeli. It's made with refried black beans, bacon, avocado and Monterey Jack.

Each Thursday, we round up a selection of scrumptious links from our friends over at YumSugar. Here's what they've got cooking this week:

• Your dishwasher spoils you.
• Healthy tacos do exist!
• Is eating cute woodland creatures your thing?
• It's OK to curl up with some warm winter comfort food -- we won't tell anyone if you break a resolution.
• Jamie Oliver takes his healthy-eating campaign to the airwaves. Will Americans gobble it up?
• Eat, eat, eat this, hot, hot, hot!
• Brown makes brown rice easy.

Wahoo's Fish Taco, the West Coast fast-food joint known both for its tacos and California surfer sensibility, celebrated its 20th anniversary in February with a party at its original Costa Mesa, Calif., restaurant. At the party they served 20-cent tacos and the first 200 guests won raffle prizes and an autograph session with professional skater Ryan Sheckler.

But the party isn't over yet. On Saturday, the company's beloved fish tacos will have their own 21st birthday shindig at all 38 California Wahoo's locations.

It's unclear what it means for a fish taco to turn 21, but customers who get free food and prizes, probably won't be complaining. (At 21, can fish tacos now finally be cooked with alcohol?)

The first 21 customers at each restaurant will get a swag box of prizes, including gifts from Tony Hawk Inc., the pro skateboarder's action-sports company. Everyone who eats at a California Wahoo's on Saturday will be rewarded with a free meal or gift card.