Month: August 2014

Food, Travel

The California Burrito: or how alcohol (likely) lead someone to put french fries inside a burrito

My second culinary discovery in San Diego went the opposite direction down the street of authenticity, and took a sharp turn towards late-night junk food. The California burrito is something that I had never heard of before lunch with a co-worker, I assumed that he was just sharing an opinion about how the burritos in Cali were better than those found elsewhere in the country. Continue reading “The California Burrito: or how alcohol (likely) lead someone to put french fries inside a burrito”

Food, Travel

Flour vs. Corn: The Tortilla Dilema

I know this will sound blasphemous to many people, but I have never been a fan of corn tortillas.

There, I said it, I’ve just had a lot of experiences with sub-par, overly thick, slightly gummy but somehow dry tortillas, with little to no flavor. I’ve found that while flour tortillas don’t really add anything to a taco or burrito, they generally don’t detract from the dish as a whole. My philosophy has been that while a good corn tortilla is an amazing thing, a decent/subpar one has the ability to drag the whole dish down with it. Conversely, while a flour tortilla is never going to elevate a dish to perfection, it is much harder to screw up a flour tortilla to the point where it is going to make the dish worse. Continue reading “Flour vs. Corn: The Tortilla Dilema”