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  Tacos are the most well-known Mexican dish in the world, and surely the first thing that comes to mind when people think of Mexican food. However, there is a type of taco whose preparation is different from all the others; this taco can even resemble another type of food like Kebabs, gyros, and shawarmas. Do you know which one it is? We are talking about the delicious taco al pastor, this type of taco that, although found throughout the country, is more emblematic of Mexico City, and yet today we will discover that it is neither so chilango (originating from Mexico City) nor completely Mexican.  This type of taco originated in the 1920s when Lebanese and Syrian migrants arrived...

Salsas in Mexican food and especially in tacos are considered the essence of the dish, because if you have a really tasty salsa it can enhance and complement the flavors of the food and give you the perfect dish. Someone even described it with this great quote: "...the sauce is so effective that it elevates the quality of the good, corrects the insignificance of the mediocre and hides the ordinariness of the bad...". Even though sauces are the backbone of Mexican cuisine, in them we can find spices from all over the world such as garlic, cilantro, onion, pepper, etc. However, there are two ingredients that cannot be missing in the preparation of a salsa, which are very Mexican. Of...