Season 3 • Episode 8
LatestIt doesn't matter which side of the Mexico-US border you're on: The taco is a conduit capable of transporting you home, to family or to a warm memory.
Many of the most popular taco styles have long, rich, little-known histories. Explore some of them in this eye-opening, mouth-watering food adventure.
Cinematography
Slow-motion tortilla steam shots should be illegal.
Production
Access to generational taqueros other shows never get.
Creator
Pablo Cruz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show deliberately features taqueras (women taco makers) to challenge the machismo-dominated narrative of Mexican street food.
That gorgeous animated sequence explaining nixtamalization? Took six months to research and depicts a 3,500-year-old process still used today.
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