The taco, a mexican prehispanic food

Made with tortillas, filled with a variety of food and seasoned with sauce, mayonnaise or sour cream, the mexican tacos are characterized by its quick preparation and easy adquisition, due to its low prices.

It seems that the taco took its name out of the way in which the spaniards called the snacks that they ate between meals.

The taco had its origins in the field, when the peasants' wifes were looking for a way in which their husbands could take their lunches with them to the farmlands.

With the cities growth, the peasants took with them their habits to the cities, making popular this kind of fast food, that very soon was one of the preferred meals of the mexicans.

The main ingredient of the taco is the tortilla, it is filled with diferent stews, and seasoning with tomato and chili sauces, vegetables and some other ingredients.

By the variety in its content, the tacos can be of "carnitas" (pork meat), this come from Michoacán and Jalisco, the tacos of head beef are from the Bajío, the Barbacoa tacos are from the center of the country (México city, tlaxcala and Hidalgo), they are made with lamb meat that is cooked in maguey pencas.

The tacos of canasta (basket) or sudados are from México city, they are sold in baskets, and they are made with small tortillas that are not rolled but bent, they are elaborated with green mole, pork meat in pipian, grinded meat, potatoes with smoked pork sausage.

The tacos "al pastor" come from Greece and Turkey, where are made with wheat-flour tortilla. they are elaborated with marinated pork meat that is roasted, they are seasoned with chopped pineapple, onion and cilantro.

The indigenous tacos are of Charales, maguey worms, sweet water shrimps, ant spawn or escamoles, and even chapulines (a kind of crickets).

The most famous yucatecan tacos are of cochinita pibil, black relleno or "But" and escabeche oriental. But it is also famous the papadzul, an egg taco with pepita and tomato sauce, and the codzitos, fried rolled tortilla with red sauce and cheese.

The sea food tacos are filled with breaded shrimp, jaiba with mayonnaise, fried fish and some kind of shellfish.

The taco is the most democratic of all the mexican food, because it is light, fast to prepare and suitable in informal meetings with friends and parties, you should try them in any of its varieties!.

By: Diario de Yucatán/adaptation and translation, Cityview