On Mar 5, 1:35?pm, "Wayne Lundberg" >
wrote:
> He tells us he wants a decent Mexican meal cooked to the highest USDA
> standards in a brick and mortar restaurant under full Sanitation control

I want that, and more. I want to find Mexican restaurants that
specialize in all the regional dishes of the various areas, not just
glorified generic theme taco stands with wall menus and faux adobe
booths and cacti painted on the walls, decorated with charro apparel
and serapes.

This site lists many, many dishes that I cannot find recipes for,
anwhere on the web.

http://www.csgastronomia.edu.mx/prof.../menpatmex.htm

Why can't I find recipes for platillos tipicos of various Mexican
states? Maybe it's because Mexicans don't know their traditional
cuisine. Or maybe it's because they don't have a computer and can't
get online to tell us about their grandmother's cooking.

> My note has more to do with his disparaging remarks about tacos and
> traditional antojitos that made Mexican food so popular, not only in the US,
> but in the world.

It has been long known that most of what Americans are eating is
Sonoran-style cooking, but I would bet that Sonoran Dude doesn't know
how to prepare these Sonoran specialties:

tamales de pitahaya, o yumare,
guaca-yaqu? o puchero,
guacapoponi o macha,
tamales de elote
gallina pinta (caldo de carne con nixtamal y frijol),
Gallina pinta (cocido de ma?z, fr?jol y carne de res),
Menudo sonorense (ma?z, panza, pata de res, chile verde, cebolla,
or?gano, cilantro),
Caldo de queso (papas rebanadas con queso, tomate y cebolla),
Tamales de garbanzo,
Vitualla de garbanzos,
Colache de calabacitas,
Bichicoris u orejones de calabaza,
Coyotas,
Callo de hacha,
Burritos de machaca,
Caldillo de machaca (huevos ahogados),
Empanadas de ostiones estilo Guaymas (osti?n y mantequilla),
Camarones rellenos (tocino, jam?n, mostaza, naranja),
T?pari con aldilla (frijoles blancos con falda de res), Huacabaque
yaqui (falda de res, cacahuazintle, fr?jol, jitomate, chile ancho),
Frijoles maneados (fr?jol, queso chihuahua, poblano, manteca), Cusir?
yaqui (postre de calabaza, piloncillo, naranja, canela, harina,
leche),
Coyotas del pueblo (postres de harina, levadura, piloncillo,
manteca),
Bacanora (bebida de maguey mezcalero),
zotol (bebida de maguey).

But how could Sonoran Dude help? He doesn't do recipes, yannow...