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Crispy Fried Shrimp Tacos with Ancho Chile Tartar Sauce

by Malcolm Bedell February 7, 2012

This recipe is a bit of a bastardization of a food that I already associate more with California than I do with Mexico. Instead of using a flaky fried fish, as you would in a Baja-style fish taco, I substituted in golden fried shrimp, battered in a dark beer batter that puffs up super light [...]

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El Camino Restaurant

by Malcolm Bedell November 18, 2011

Our first attempt at going to El Camino was a bit of a bust. Walking through the heavy door directly into the middle of a bustling bar scene on a Saturday night was not at all what we expected from this restaurant, tucked away on a side street in Brunswick. The restaurant is divided into [...]

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The Food Trucks of Brunswick

by Malcolm Bedell August 19, 2011

Outside of Portland, Maine, food trucks have exploded into a national trend. Like fixed-gear bicycles and the inexplicable spike in sales of Pabst Blue Ribbon, we probably have the hipsters to thank, who transitioned the lowly mobile catering truck from “roach coach” status, suitable only for selling food outside of factories or at carnivals, into [...]

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Atlantic Baja-Style Fish Tacos

by Jillian Bedell July 19, 2011

We recently received a request from a landlocked friend somewhere in the mysterious Midwest, desperate for a good fish taco recipe. While we have certainly eaten fish tacos and made fish tacos (next time we’re on the subject, we’ll tell you more about the super-pink tuna and wasabi mayo version we crafted once), where we [...]

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America! Presents: Taco Bell® Home Originals® Cheesy DOUBLE DECKER® Taco Dinner Kit

by Malcolm Bedell July 18, 2011

Jillian and I have radically different memories of “Taco Tuesday,” the one-day-a-month night where our respective mothers felt like having a bit of a break from cooking with a kid-friendly, crowd-pleasing tabletop spread of taco shells, ground beef, and toppings. My mom grew up in Southern California, and thus had a pretty well-developed sense of [...]

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Crispy Chicken Skin Tacos with Habanero Salsa (Chicharron de Pollo)

by Malcolm Bedell June 6, 2011

You’re either going to love this idea, or it’s going to make you just a teensy bit queasy. My dad, for one, would have loved it; he was convinced that if he could just buy several pounds of chicken skins and deep-fry them, he could become the international king of the “bar snack” industry (he [...]

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Tu Casa

by Malcolm Bedell May 25, 2011

Depending on who you ask, Latin American cuisine is poised to happen in a big way, in Portland. Or maybe it’s not. With the newly-opened Taco Trio, the gas station-turned-taco-stand El Rayo, the kimchi-drenched “fusion” tacos at Gogi, and the upcoming entries into the Mexican scene, in the form of Nosh’s new “Taco Escobar” project, [...]

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Opening: Taco Trio

by Malcolm Bedell May 16, 2011

I‘ve been wondering recently whether a truly “authentic” Mexican restaurant or taqueria would be able to gain any traction in the Portland food scene. For as many “On the Borders” and “Margaritas” as there are (conveniently located on the outskirts of the Maine Mall parking lot, and in the open sore of St. John street, [...]

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Taco Tempatations Menu at Margaritas

by Malcolm Bedell April 20, 2011

It’s hard to imagine the uphill battle Margaritas faced when it first opened in the late 1980s, in a pre-Fore Street, pre-Hugo’s Portland. Then, Portland’s restaurant scene was somewhat limited to either a platter of fried food at the Weathervane, a very special shawl-wrapped and Liz Claiborne-scented evening at DiMillo’s, or another acceptable-but-hardly-inspiring meal at [...]

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Sobras (Leftovers): The Other Things We Ate In Mexico

by Malcolm Bedell April 3, 2011
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