taco history

The Taco: the dish that has conquered the world

Typically Mexican to prepare and present a large number of dishes, the taco is a benchmark of Mexican cuisine, said renowned chef Alfonso "Poncho" Cadena.

The chef, who on October 4 will premiere his program "Los maestros del taco" on the El Gourmet pay channel, made it clear that the taco is the base that sustains Mexican cuisine, because in the end, "we all accompany almost everything with a tortilla. "

Belonging to the fourth generation of a family of French kitchen chefs, he pointed out that the taco's family tree branches from the flutes, to the enchiladas, the tlayudas . . .