Welcome to 1000 Tacos, where our motto is come y calle -eat and shut up!
I’m Southern California chef Deborah Schneider, committed Baja hound and the author of 4 cookbooks about Baja California. 1000Tacos is intended to be an intermittent journal that celebrates the Mexican street and street food: edgy art, food stands, culture, markets, tequilas, wine & beer, bad-for-you food, interesting ingredients, even candles, curios and folk saints ….. the goal is indeed to chow down the 1000 tacos (and other street food) of the title: ordinary, weird, unique, bizarre, delicious– whatever we can find. Come along for the ride! I’ll drive – you bring the Tums.
Deb Schneider with 'the Enforcer' at Mercado Hidalgo in Tijuana
ABOUT DEBORAH SCHNEIDER
Tags: Chef/author/food philosopher/ hunter-gatherer/blogger/craftster/teacher / occasional slacker/auto-didact. (I think that covers it.) I live in San Diego, where I’ve cooked professionally since 1983 (check out chefdebcooks.com for the whole story.) I was raised on good old Canadian farm cooking – solid, but hardly exotic. I fell in love with Mexican street food while travelling the Baja peninsula and learned the basics back in San Diego by interviewing / pestering my Mexican co-workers and friends. Four cookbooks and one hot Newport Beach restaurant later (SOL Cocina solcocina.com) I am still chasing the perfect taco, a quest that I hope will never end.
Taco de tripa at El Gordo
I tend to haunt the apocalyptic parts of Tijuana (that would be most of TJ, actually) and northern Baja. The best part about being a border taco hound is hanging out in neighborhoods where you can sink in, blend in with the landscaping and groove along to our street/ border vibe – the color and flavors of California, Mexico, surf culture, past and present all wrapped up. Love it!
the love that dares not speak its name - El Gordo, Tijuana
DEB’S BOOKS
Amor y Tacos (STC, 2010)
¡Baja! Cooking on the Edge (Rodale, 2006)
Cooking with the Seasons at Rancho La Puerta (STC, 2008)
Williams Sonoma’s Essentials of Latin Cooking (2010)
LINKS
chefdebcooks.com
Solcocina.com
seafood tostada 'campechana' (with everything)
