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Eater's Digest

How Birria Became America's Hottest Taco Trend

Eater's Digest

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Bill Esparza catches us up on the growing presence of birria in the USA. Gabe Hiatt joins us to explain the complicated new regulations being proposed around drinking in DC. Get in touch with the hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater [email protected] More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.

0:09.0

Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.

0:15.0

But here's the thing about kingdoms.

0:17.0

They don't last forever.

0:18.0

To survive, Disney had to grow.

0:21.0

But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.

0:24.3

And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe

0:29.6

Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.

0:35.0

Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. Hi everyone and welcome to Eaters Digest a show about all things food and dining.

0:51.6

I'm Amanda Cloot, editor and chief of

0:52.9

eater. I'm Daniel Janine, producer Amanda. What do we have in the pipeline for today?

0:58.4

Today we are talking to Bill Asparza. He is a food writer out of Los Angeles,

1:03.9

an expert in Mexican cuisine.

1:06.3

And we are talking to him about a big trend

1:08.5

we have been seeing across the United States,

1:11.2

which is the rapid rise in Buria taco trucks. So as you probably know, Daniel Buria is a very

1:19.6

traditional Mexican dish. It's from pre-Hispanic times, it came to Tijuana after the prohibition and in the form of beef

1:30.2

beeria, and that's the kind of beeria we're seeing now everywhere across the

1:34.7

US and it's really it's really grown quite a bit I mean we had a piece out of

1:38.9

Texas yesterday about how many new trucks have popped up in Austin.

1:43.0

Anyway, really cool to talk to him, talk to him about what it's like seeing this thing that he saw grow from, you know, just a...

1:50.0

or a very traditional thing in Mexico into and get essentially like L.A.

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