Gringos

Day 88

Thursday

The Mediterranean Diet has received its share of face time in the world. People rave about its health benefits, how it pulls from local ecosystems, and its cooking methods. But some days you just want to throw the olives and the olive oil out the window and eat chana masala or chow mein Or a taco.

One night as we were wandering around some small alleys in the city we stumbled upon a small taco restaurant owned by an Argentine woman. While we doubted her ability to cook up a true Mexican enchilada or Salvadoranean pupusa, our palettes craved anything that didn’t come as a tapas. And while Taco Bell could compete with what we ate, I’ve never relished salsa nor guacamole so much in my life. How could something written in Spanish be so very different from the food we’d known to be Spanish?

And yes, tequila should only go with Mexican.

All hail the immigrants of Spain!