{"id":4241,"date":"2012-05-19T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2012-05-19T08:42:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T12:42:22","slug":"the-origins-of-tacos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-origins-of-tacos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of Tacos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/051912_1238_TheOriginso1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"528\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Katy June Friesen had the opportunity to interview Jeffrey M. Pilcher, an expert on Mexican food. In this interview they discussed the origins of the taco and some highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One theory suggests that the word &#8216;taco&#8217; has its origins in the dynamite (paper covered gunpowder) used in Mexican silver mines.<\/li>\n<li>Tacos are a relatively modern invention that can be traced back to the 1700s.<\/li>\n<li>Tacos were first mentioned in the United States in 1905, at a time when Mexicans began to migrate to the United States.<\/li>\n<li>They were seen as lower class food until the children of the original Mexican migrants began to advance economically.<\/li>\n<li>What is widely considered a standard taco today is really an amalgam of American and Mexican cuisine. Hamburger meat, cheddar cheese, iceberg lettuce and tomatoes are all signs of American influences.<\/li>\n<li>Hard shell tacos did not become mainstream until around the 1940s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about Lebanese-Mexican tacos, why tacos are like doughnuts, why Taco Bell has been unsuccessful in Mexico, the role that sexualization has played in the adoption of the taco, and why eating a taco was described as &#8220;biting a serpent&#8221; read the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/Where-Did-the-Taco-Come-From.html?c=y&amp;story=fullstory\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/Where-Did-the-Taco-Come-From.html?c=y&amp;story=fullstory\">Smithsonian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/12\/05\/history-of-the-taco\">Kottke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy June Friesen had the opportunity to interview Jeffrey M. Pilcher, an expert on Mexican food. In this interview they discussed the origins of the taco and some highlights include: One theory suggests that the word &#8216;taco&#8217; has its origins in the dynamite (paper covered gunpowder) used in Mexican silver mines. Tacos are a relatively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/051912_1238_TheOriginso1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}