We’re always a sucker for dishes that amount to “some kind of food with some other kind of food stuck on top of it,” which explains why our heart is singing and our bowels are cringing for this “Bacon...

Guys? Here’s some unpleasant news. You’re a selfish parent. Oh, are you not a parent? Shut up. Surveys suggest you eat small portions and avoid snacks, yet reward your child with salty yum-yum’s: Mintel’s exclusive consumer survey reveals that...

You asked for it! We looked for a nice recipe for tripas that seemed tasty and like something we’d want to eat. Now, this particular recipe, for a tapa dish, admittedly contains a lot of ingredients. But don’t be...

We’ll admit to recently becoming obsessed with a cooking blog we’ve stumbled upon - not because we like to or are particularly adept at cooking, but because, for us, food = porn. The blog is “Bread & Honey” and...

If you’re looking to add a new flavor to your home cooking, or if you like to read new recipes on the internet while waiting for your Cup Noodles to microwave, you might want to try papalo - a...

We have a love/hate relationship with Fort Greene eatery Habana Outpost. We love it because it’s adorable and the food we’ve sampled there, for the most part and while inebriated, is not undelicious. But… Why would a restaurant with...

While demolishing a bag of gummy worms this morning (we enjoy getting our day off to a healthy start), we began to wonder how real worms would taste, then recalled how our Mexican ex (our “Ex-ican,” if you will)...

There is little in this world that we love more than stuffing our face with delectable meat products (you shut up), especially carne asada - that time-honored dish we very nearly grew completely sick of after having had to...

Our very favorite porn channel, The Food Network, aired the season finale of “The Next Food Network Star” last night. And we felt torn as to who to root for. One the one hand, we had a guy with...

Ken Burns Hates Mexicans has a fascinating history of the puffy taco for your perusement today. As we all know (because they won’t stop bitching about them) San Antonians LOOOOOVE their puffy tacos, a mysterious culinary delight that was...

In order to offset the high cost of gasoline, Jack in the Box has crowbarred itself into a promotion that, once again, draws inspiration from Mexico (because who knows better how to get by on nothing?): If filling up...

Disconcerted by the news that a giant corporation might be lying to us, Daniel, Alex and Mark decided to deep throat some Chipotle and see how our choices in Fauxican foodstuffs falls in comparison to the restaurant’s nutritional information....

Noticed how some of your favorite Latin desserts seem to be popping up in more and more chain restaurants? Us either, since we only eat Top Ramen and McDonald’s. But, ok! If you say so: Check out the sweets...

Dichos are little fortune-cookie-like confections, except, instead of including words of wisdom like “that lo mein was a terrible idea,” you’ll get them with a plate of enchiladas you’ll eventually totally regret and a saying in Espanish: Crack open...

Because idiots will seriously buy anything, one company, Engobi, has come out with caffeinated snack chips that will make you vomit and shit at the same time, whirling around on the floor like a Paint ‘n Swirl. Which could...

It’s happened to all of us. You hit a mid-afternoon lag and find yourself rummaging through the contents of your refrigerator for something to shove into your gaping maw. “If only,” you murmur, tentatively sniffing a carton of milk...

Maybe Angelina Jolie is not the saintlier, less sexy version of Mother Theresa we all thought she was! Maybe she’s just like us - if we were all terrible mothers!: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt reportedly let their children...

God, the Brits! Aunt Bessie’s (of course), purveyor of the “Mash Cone,” a mash potato, sausage, and pea concoction built like an ice cream sundae, were upset by a negative write-up they received on the Metro’s blog. This tea...

Former “Las Vegas’ star Molly Sims and “Dos Caminos” Las Vegas’ chef Scott Linquist prepare a bastardized version of guacamole, the proceeds of which go to help poor Mexican conjoined twins with no teeth or something. The fact that...

We guess Italian nonnas must have a lot in common with Cuban abuelitas because this commercial (almost) made us want to give our grandmother a call. And reminisce about how she helped foster guilty feelings concerning food! Yay! Pass...

You know what goes really well with blogging apathetically in pajama bottoms? Sugar and grease! That’s why we’re drooling over the idea of buying a truck pot full of these fried, custard-filled Guatemalan (or Cuban according to some sites...

Ever wonder what you should do with all the slightly stale Peeps you have leftover from Easter? Other than shoving two or eight into your mouth at night, alone, while crying and listening to Regina Spektor? Well, dry your...

Had your fill of Eva Longoria news? Too bad! We’re hungover as hell and taking it out on you. For her 33rd birthday celebration in Miami, Land of Tacky Cakes, Eva commissioned a cake with her face plastered all...

Do you find your salads or fruit cups or hourly pudding breaks to be a little, well. Lacking in sodium nitrate? Well, fret not, because we’ve got a recipe for bacon cups that will make your pancreas positively bubble...

Your big, fat, stupid kids might be that way because they’re bombarded with images of delicious foods on Spanish-language TV stations and not because you buy them nothing but deep-fried Cheetos dipped in fudge: Spanish-language television is bombarding children...

Stars are not so different than we you are; even Jennifer Lopez likes to eat fried chicken and cole slaw alone in her bathtub on a Friday night, waiting for the phone to ring. But Ben is never going...

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has been accused of stealing over 500 tons of food from Alimentos Polar, a major food distribution and one of the largest private businesses in Venezuela. There goes his diet. Although we guess a man...

Because this is what the world has some to and we’re not one to pretend to be better than this, we’re going to go ahead and report that Britney Spears, perhaps jealous of her younger sister, skipped a court...

We’ve always enjoyed Mexican candies, but, you know sometimes, they can be a little heavy. Like, you know. Lead. LOLiterally: The Texas Department of State Health Services says Villa-Mex Imports of San Antonio is recalling Miguelito Azucar Salada Enchilada...

Thrillist LA’s list today suggests you stuff your pinche face full of tacos at “Pinches Tacos” in West Hollywood. Eat: Pinches Tacos 8200 W. Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood; 323.650.0614 Named after the word that Spanish speakers use around you...

We were first introduced to Mexican tortas by a Chilango ex-boyfriend and we laughed because “torta” means something entirely different to Cubans. But then we cried because they were so delicious. And then we farted, but just a little....

Ibérico ham is the most badass of all hams, as it used to be banned in the United States. However, the Spanish delicacy is currently being allowed into the country once again, right in time for Christmas, for quite...

At the Third Annual Corn Fair (yes!), representatives from over 20 indigenous communities gathered together to defend their corn against the genetically modified varieties that are gaining popularity: In recent months, the introduction of GM corn has become a...

A Mexican baker would like you to know that she understands every Latino has a specific preference when it comes to cakes. And she’s willing and able to cater to all your confectionary desires: A typical Puerto Rican cake...

As part of our never ending, compulsive consumption of food, we are constantly scouring the city internet for the perfect places to, say, chase down a taco truck. But sometimes we get tired of tacos. Or we get issued...

We were titillated to find, at the bottom of the comments section of our story on Chicago celebrity chefboy Efrain Cuevas, the following comment from the chef himself: you missed some good birria Okay, it’s not exactly a love...

A Houston judge has ruled that the city’s new “taco truck” ordinance could go into effect this week, much to the chagrin of mobile food truck vendors and the gordita-crazed masses who love them so: The new ordinance requires...

People who want you to buy their food would like you to know that you’re not fat because you eat too much and don’t get enough exercise. You’re fat because that’s how your mom and the Baby Jesus made...

A new line of dairy drinks inspired by your favorite Latin dishes will have your mouth open wide in anticipation of creamy, frothy goodness. Oh boy!: SolMaya Brands, a registered brand of Presto Food & Beverage, Inc. successfully launched...

Guatemalan chicken chain Pollo Campero is set to open up restaurants inside Wal-Mart stores, in an effort to appeal to brown consumers who can’t get through an hour or so of shopping without eating: Two restaurants s are scheduled...

“Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria is opening a restaurant called BESO, which is Spanish for overpriced shit kiss. Cute!: “I love to cook!” Longoria, 32, told PEOPLE at an event Wednesday night. “I’m a big, big cooker in my...

The Village Voice trekked all the way out to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that mystical haven of ironic mustaches and people who make art by vomiting PBR and cheese fries onto a wall, in search of Mexican food: I had high...

Cuban-born Nelly Quijano, who owns several McDonald’s franchises, has been named female entrepreneur of the year by the Cámara de Empresarios Latinos de Houston. But, far more importantly, she is credited with helping invent the McDonald’s breakfast burrito: “We...

Now this is a smart use of Google Maps. A site called yumtacos.com is asking for contributions to its inventory of California taco trucks. If you know of a specific truck - whether it is one you visit regularly,...

Puffy taco. Say the words aloud and allow them to roll slowly off your lips. Puffy. Taco. You totally want some, right? You probably don’t even know what they are but you totally want one in your face right...

The New York Daily News did a story about the death of Jennifer Lopez’s grandmother Julia Rodriguez which brought nostalgic tears to our eyes: J.Lo’s mother, two aunts and cousins paid heartfelt tributes to Rodriguez at the memorial service,...

We were shocked to find, in this morning’s “Food And Wine” section of the New York Times, reporter Joe Drape spewing seditious statements in defense of Tex-Mex cuisine. “Neither the government of Mexico nor the high priests of that...

Speaking of environmentalism, in this video a group of culinary students in Mexico City prove what we already know—that Latinos are the original recyclers. Instead of luxury fabrics like silk and taffeta, pineapples, beans and chillies [sic] were the...

The editor-in-chief of food mag Gourmet, Ruth Reichl, done fucked up and dedicated September’s issue to Latin food. As a result, she’s encountered curious readers who thank her for appealing to their experimental side and racist ones who look...

Movie production peons spent the wee hours of Monday morning turning a Boston bistro into an “authentic Irish cantina” called “Pancho McDougal’s.” (Not for the hell of it, but for the sake of a Dane Cook project. We consider...