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Taco News Round Up ~ January 12, 2007

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Novelist Colston Whitehead Loves Tacos
Well, he doesn't say they're his favorite, but he puts them up there in his top "meat in dough" edibles and mentions making his own pork tacos at home. Props to Colston, he's on our list of good writers now.

Boston's Best Tacos
Here's one person's opinion put into a nifty map format. We've got a similar, slightly better-filled-in taco map for Los Angeles, although we've got a long way to go.

Chowhound Taco Adventures
Chowhounder Dommy posts his east side adventures sampling mulitas de chorizo, tacos de lengua, and more from a little taco table where the taco man is on a first-name basis with most of his customers. Home-made chorizo at a little taco table? Sounds like our kind of place...

Fresh Grilled Pollo Street Tacos
That's the latest find over at Bandini's taco hunt, as the master stops in Lennox (one of our favorite unincorporated areas of Los Angeles) and eats some tasty pollo in a strip mall.

Put on the Ritz with Taco
He's got the greatest name in showbiz, so this weekend relax with Taco's version of the classic Irving Berlin hit "Putting on the Ritz". Youtube has the video, which is a classic in so many ways, not least of which the mouse fondling in the beginning:

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