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Carne Asada, Hold The Meat: Why Latinos Are Embracing Vegan-Mexican Cuisine
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 204" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/19/629629261/carne-asada-hold-the-meat-why-latinos-are-embracing-vegan-mexican-cuisine" target="_blank"><strong>Carne Asada, Hold The Meat: Why Latinos Are Embracing Vegan-Mexican Cuisine</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Tall, dreadlocked Josh Scheper knew he was out of place as he surveyed the scene at a Santa Ana, Calif., parking lot on a Sunday morning this past April. And the 46-year-old loved it.</p><p> </p><p>Hundreds of people waited in line at stalls for vegan food, but few people looked like the Los Angeles resident. Nearly everyone in the crowd was young and Latino, as were the chefs. The food on sale was Mexican — but not hippie-dippy cafe standbys like cauliflower tacos, or tempeh-stuffed burritos. Instead, chefs reimagined meaty classics that were honest-to-goodness <em>bueno</em>.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/vegatinos" target="_blank">Vegatinos</a> offered jackfruit tacos, the fruit cooked so that it tasted like al pastor, the spiced pork-on-a-spit tradition from central Mexico. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/veganbyvictorias" target="_blank">Vegan by Victoria's</a>, the host of the event, hawked dairy-free Mexican and Salvadoran pan dulce (sweet bread). Another stall blasted ranchera music as a stern-looking millennial wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers hat and a Pendleton jacket ladled vegan pozole (hominy stew usually prepared with pork) into big bowls while he sung its praises to a customer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 204, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/19/629629261/carne-asada-hold-the-meat-why-latinos-are-embracing-vegan-mexican-cuisine'][B]Carne Asada, Hold The Meat: Why Latinos Are Embracing Vegan-Mexican Cuisine[/B][/URL] Tall, dreadlocked Josh Scheper knew he was out of place as he surveyed the scene at a Santa Ana, Calif., parking lot on a Sunday morning this past April. And the 46-year-old loved it. Hundreds of people waited in line at stalls for vegan food, but few people looked like the Los Angeles resident. Nearly everyone in the crowd was young and Latino, as were the chefs. The food on sale was Mexican — but not hippie-dippy cafe standbys like cauliflower tacos, or tempeh-stuffed burritos. Instead, chefs reimagined meaty classics that were honest-to-goodness [I]bueno[/I]. [URL='https://www.instagram.com/vegatinos']Vegatinos[/URL] offered jackfruit tacos, the fruit cooked so that it tasted like al pastor, the spiced pork-on-a-spit tradition from central Mexico. [URL='https://www.instagram.com/veganbyvictorias']Vegan by Victoria's[/URL], the host of the event, hawked dairy-free Mexican and Salvadoran pan dulce (sweet bread). Another stall blasted ranchera music as a stern-looking millennial wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers hat and a Pendleton jacket ladled vegan pozole (hominy stew usually prepared with pork) into big bowls while he sung its praises to a customer. [/QUOTE]
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