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One of L.A. TACO&#8217;s co-founders, Hadley Tomicki is a writer and editor on food, travel, and culture whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, UrbanDaddy, High Times, and many other places.

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Hadley Tomicki

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A Vegetarian Recipe for Spicy, Juicy Tacos de Jamaica. Just in Time for Tonight

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Two Puebla-Themed Tecate Cocktail Recipes for Your Cinco de Mayo Rager at Home. And One for Salsa Borracha

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Recipe: How to Make Legit Tacos de Canasta at Home

Chismes. Tacos. Words. Those are some of my favorite things.

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Airbnb Is Looking for the World’s Best Abuelita Cooks

Gabriel Chabrán is a food writer and journalist from Highland Park. He currently lives in Long Beach with his wife Katie, their new baby, and their Russian Blue cat, Mars.

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It’s National Taco Day, Come Get Your Taco on with L.A. Taco at Macheen’s Takeover of Northgate Market in Norwalk This Friday

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Presenting: L.A. Taco’s Hatch Taco Knockout Friday Night! Macheen vs Evil Cooks (First 100 People Get Free Tacos)

Melissa Mora Hidalgo was born in Montebello and grew up in the L.A./O.C. borderlands of East Whittier and La Habra. She holds a Ph. D. in Literature from UC San Diego and is the author of Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands (Headpress UK, 2016).

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Do You Know the ‘Flávio’ Story? Why These Photographs from Brazilian Favelas in 1961 Resonate Today

Lexis-Olivier Ray is an award-winning staff investigative reporter for L.A. TACO known for holding powerful people in Los Angeles accountable and his reporting on Los Angeles culture. As well as an artist and filmmaker. In 2022, the Society of Professional Journalists&#8217; Los Angeles chapter named Ray one of their &#8220;distinguished journalists.&#8221; This year, Ray won a second place Anthem Award in their Health Innovation category for a texting service geared towards the unhoused community and service providers that he launched in 2021 with L.A. TACO and Subtext. Ray was a 2020 USC Center For Health Journalism (CHJ) Data Fellow. As well as a 2022 CHJ Impact Fellow. As a freelancer, Ray has contributed to the L.A. Times, Men&#8217;s Health Magazine, KCET and SFGATE.

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Lexis-Olivier Ray

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This Is Not a T-Shirt: How to Start a Street Fashion Brand by Bobby Hundreds

Wes Avila is an award-winning chef and founder of Guerrilla Tacos. He is the author of &#8220;Guerrilla Tacos: Recipes from the Streets of L.A.&#8221;

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Recipe: Chef Wes Avila’s San Marcos Chipotle Tacos al Vapor

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‘Graffiti Palace’ ~ A.G. Lombardo Maps a Fictional Odyssey Through the 1965 Watts Riots

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