By: Brian Garrido Nachos are not just a convenience food served at a twenty-four, seven day a week store, with stale chips and slathered in a gooey orange “cheese” sauce. Rather, the Tex-Mex dish has a real history, starting with
By: Brian Garrido Channel 12’s news anchor, Vanessa Ruiz, is a proud multi-cultural Latina. Having lived on three different continents, she proves that Hispanic dispersion is far-reaching, on a global scale, despite popular belief. Born in Miami, she grew up
By: Brian Garrido Living in Arizona as a Latin-American is to be imbued with a sense of responsibility towards our heritage. We need to uphold our traditions; but we also need support our growth, collectively and individually, in the new
By: Brian Garrido A recent big-time food magazine heralded the return of a Tex-Mex favorite with Southern celebrity chef, Sean Brock’s Queso Fundido. Had the publication come to Arizona, they would have noted the cheesy dish was already popular and
By: Brian Garrido In Latin America, many people give up meat for Lent and rely solely on seafood for the next forty days and nights. On Easter Sunday, the time comes to “break Lent” and it becomes a carne asada
By Aida Chavez Cronkite Special to AZLatinos.com Colados Coffee and Crepes is a family-owned coffee shop and creperie in Avondale and it has been getting a lot of positive attention from Valley foodies. The shop uses a unique brewing process
By: Brian Garrido After immigrating to the United States, Jalisco-born Patricia and Martin Rangel created Fiesta Mexicana, a growing restaurant empire in Colorado, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. With eight restaurants in operation and four sold as franchises, the couple
By now, many families are observing Lent, a season beginning on Ash Wednesdsay and is described as a time for reflection and preparation before the celebrations of Easter. The season is most noted for having people 14 years of age
By: Brian Garrido Born the second youngest of eleven children in Mexico’s colonial town of San Miguel de Allende, Chef Azucena Tovar arrived in Arizona 20 years later as a married woman. In 2016, she is an independent Mexican entrepreneur
By Brian Garrido The Sonoran hot dog is a cross-cultural influence between the borderlands of Mexico and the United States. A little more than twenty-five years ago, the dogs made their way from the United States to Hermosillo, a city
