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As past due as the 1960s, tacos were nearly anonymous outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years america had transported taco shells almost everywhere from Alaska to Australia, Morocco to Mongolia. But how performed this tasty hand-held food - and Mexican food more broadly - become so ubiquitous? In World Taco, Jeffrey Pilcher traces the historical roots and progression of Mexico's national cuisine, explores its incarnation as a Mexican American fast-food, shows how surfers became global pioneers of Mexican food, and exactly how Corona ale conquered the entire world. Pilcher is particularly enlightening on what the history of Mexican food reveals about the uneasy romance between globalization and authenticity.The burritos and taco shells that many people think of as Mexican were actually created in america. But Pilcher argues that the modern-day have difficulties between globalization and national sovereignty to determine the authenticity of Mexican food dates back more than 100 years. Through the nineteenth hundred years, Mexicans searching for a national cuisine were torn between nostalgic "Creole" Hispanic bowls of the past and French haute cuisine, the global food of the day. Indigenous foods were scorned as unfit for civilized furniture. Only when Mexican American food were appropriated by the fast food industry and transported across the world performed Mexican elites rediscover the foods of the historical Maya and Aztecs and adopt the indigenous roots of their national cuisine. From a taco cart in Hermosillo, Mexico to the "Chili Queens" of San Antonio and tamale distributors in L.A., Jeffrey Pilcher employs this highly adaptable cuisine, paying special focus on the people too often overlooked in the struggle to define genuine Mexican food: Indigenous Mexicans and Mexican People in the usa.
