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Rick Bayless Talks Mexican vs. Mexican

On SF Gate’s Inside Scoop today, the honorable Paolo Lucchesi sat down with the venerable Rick Bayless to talk shop. After he got done waxing on about his good eating in SF (none of it Mexican), he got down to business. A man with a sharp mind, Bayless always has…

What Happens In San Miguel …

The last time I was in San Miguel de Allende, I was going through a divorce. It was my first Christmas without my boys and my parents had thought that it would be good for me to get away from it all, so they bought me an airline ticket to…

Exit Interview: Perbacco chef Staffan Terje

A Swedish chef in San Francisco running an Italian restaurant comes to cook Cal-Mexican for Tacolicious’s farmers market stand. Hooray for America.

First taco memory?
Being from Sweden, unfortunately it was at Taco Bell. Also, although it’s not a true taco, in Sweden, we make something similar called a…

Taco World: We’re in Food & Wine mag!

It’s funny how things happen. When we launched Tacolicious we had no idea that there would be a national taco trend. But the May issue of Food & Wine magazine has made a very convincing case for it—just in time for Cinco de Mayo, of course—and we’re included! 
You can see the…

Postcard from LA

Down in LA for my good friend Danielle’s wedding, Joe and I were lucky enough to be put up at the fancy Fairmont Miramar Hotel and Bungalows. We pulled our bug-splattered Subaru station wagon through the fancy gates where a battery of valets awaited us under the hotel’s famous Bay…