Baja California, Mexico
Tacos de Pescado
Baja-style fish tacos of battered, fried white fish in corn tortillas with cabbage slaw and a creamy chile sauce.
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Sinaloa, Mexico
Tacos gobernador
Sinaloa's governor taco: a flour tortilla stuffed with cheese and shrimp, griddled until crisp.
Puebla, Mexico
Tacos Árabes
Puebla's Middle Eastern-inspired tacos: spit-roasted pork (trompo) served on soft flour tortillas with salsa and pineapple.
Argentina
Tamal
An Andean tamal of corn dough (or crushed dried corn) mixed with squash, filled with spiced pork or beef, wrapped in corn husks, and steamed. A northwest Argentine classic.
Mexico
Tamales
Masa de maíz nixtamalizado filled with meats, sauces, or sweets, wrapped in corn husks or banana leaves and steamed until tender.
Michoacán, Mexico
Tamales de capitas o siete cueros
A layered Michoacán tamal of stacked masa sheets, one of the 'seven skins'.
Mexico
Tamales de Elote
A Salvadoran sweet corn tamale wrapped in corn husks, a daily and seasonal classic
Oaxaca, Mexico
Tamales de tichinda
Oaxacan tamales filled with tiny tichinda shrimp.
Chiapas, Mexico
Tascalate
A Chiapas drink of ground cacao, corn, and achiote, dissolved in milk or water and served cold.
Oaxaca, Mexico
Tejate
An Oaxacan cold drink of fermented maize, cacao, and mamey seed, served with a foam.
Jalisco, Mexico
Tejuino
A Jalisco drink of fermented corn masa, sweetened with piloncillo and served over ice with lime.
Mexico
Tepache
A lightly fermented pineapple drink, sweet, tangy, and faintly fizzy.
Mexico
Tequila
A distilled spirit made from blue agave in Jalisco and limited adjoining municipalities, protected by Denominación de Origen.
Mexico
Tinga
Shredded chicken or beef simmered in a smoky chipotle-tomato sauce with onion.
Mexico
Tiritas pescado
Zihuatanejo's tiritas de pescado: very thin strips of fresh fish dressed briefly with lime, onion, chile, and salt, created as a simple fisherman's preparation on Guerrero's coast.
Mexico
Tlacoyos
Oval blue-corn masa cakes stuffed with fava beans or chicharrón, then grilled and topped with nopales, cheese, and salsa.
Oaxaca, Mexico
Tlayuda
A large, thin, crispy Oaxacan tortilla spread with asiento and beans, then topped with quesillo, cabbage, and tasajo or chorizo.
Mexico
Toquera
A thick griddled corn cake or gordita made from mature fresh corn, prepared in Michoacán and northern Guerrero in sweet or savory forms with piloncillo, cream, cheese, or salt.
Guadalajara, Mexico
Torta Ahogada
A Guadalajara sandwich of crusty birote bread stuffed with carnitas and drenched in tangy tomato-chile sauce.
Mexico
Torta Cubana
The overstuffed Mexican sandwich: bolillo piled with multiple meats, cheese, avocado, and fixings.
Mexico
Torta de la barda
Tampico's towering torta de la barda: a bolillo layered with beans, ham, cheeses, avocado, shredded beef, chicharrón in green salsa, and chorizo, named for the dockside wall where it was first sold.
Mexico City, Mexico
Torta de tamal
A tamal sandwich: a warm tamal (often green chile and pork) slipped into a bolillo.
Mexico
Tostada
A fried, crisp corn tortilla topped with beans, meat, salsa, and cheese.
Mexico
Totopo
A thick, baked corn chip, sturdy enough for dipping.
Mexico
Tres leches cake
A sponge cake soaked in three milks — evaporated, condensed, and cream — topped with meringue.
Mexico
Tripas
Tacos of slow-cooked, then crisped, beef tripe.
Veracruz, Mexico
Vainilla de Papantla
Whole cured vanilla pods and extract from the Papantla region of Veracruz and Puebla, protected by Denominación de Origen.
Jalisco, Mexico
Valentina Hot Sauce
Salsa Valentina
A Mexican vinegar-forward hot sauce from Grupo Tamazula, whose Guadalajara company introduced Valentina as an everyday bottled salsa for snacks and meals.
Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
X'Nipek
A Yucatecan habanero-tomato salsa, fiery and fresh.
Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
Xtabentún
A Yucatecan honey-anise liqueur, sweet and herbal.
Mexico
Yolixpa
A Sierra Norte herbal liqueur of herbs, fruits, and agave spirit.
Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
Yucatán Peninsula Xunankab Bee Honey
A prized honey from the native xunankab (Melipona) bee of the Yucatán, dark and intensely flavored.