Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food (Jeffrey M. Pilcher) Colombia Each recipe focuses on fresh

Each recipe focuses on fresh produce of the area

and bloggers who made them legendary

Arabica chocolate and coffee tart

across the caper fields of volcanic Pantelleria

fish tacos and shrimp guacamole from Baja California

Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food (Jeffrey M. Pilcher) Colombia Each recipe focuses on freshHardcover Edition. As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco shells everywhere from Alaska to Australia, Morocco to Mongolia. But how did this tasty hand held food and Mexican food more broadly become so ubiquitous? In Planet Taco, Jeffrey Pilcher traces the historical origins and evolution of Mexico's national cuisine, explores its incarnation as