By Gustavo Arellano – Eater.com – Illustration: Naya-Cheyenne
Just as Mexico has regional culinary traditions — Oaxacan, Sonoran, Sinaloan, and so many more — los Estados Unidos has its own distinct Mexican cuisines. Many aficionados of Mexican food consider the signatures of these unique American Mexican foodways to be minor travesties of taste and inauthenticity — Tex-Mex? Walking tacos? Totchos? Utahn sweet pork? — unworthy of discussion alongside the taco trucks of Los Angeles, the barbacoa of South Texas, or the Sonoran hot dogs of Tucson.
