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Cutty's Week, Day 2: The Spicy Pork Torta
A celebrity* invented this sandwich, but that's not why it became famous. According to Kelsey, the Spicy Pork Torta ($7.99) is another one of those examples of the staff mixing and matching X,Y, and Z from the raw materials they keep on hand, and coming up with something amazing.A Sandwich A Day: Pork Loin at Manny's Tortas in Minneapolis
Thin slices of pork loin sizzle on a flat top as the cook at Manny's Tortas douses the meat with seasoning salt. The pork loin torta ($7.45) is available at both locations of the popular Minneapolis takeout restaurant, which offers ten tortas total, from steak to Hawaiian.A Sandwich a Day: The Chile Relleno Torta from La Verdad in Boston
La Verdad, the Fenway Park taqueria, wouldn't be the first place to come to mind if someone asked me to name the best Ken Oringer restaurant, what with Clio, Uni, Toro, Coppa, and now Earth in Maine to contend with. But ask me for a favorite Ken Oringer dish, and top seed would probably go to La Verdad's Chile Relleno Torta ($9.95). It's crazy good. So good that every time I eat it, I mentally slap myself on the back of the head for having waited so long since the last time.A Sandwich a Day: Pulled Pork Torta from Izzoz Tacos in Austin, TX
Even if you come to Izzoz (pronounced eee-zoz) Tacos with the best intentions of ordering tacos, you may leave the cart with a pulled pork torta ($6.50), which is fine (as long as you also try the tacos at some point). The pork is juicy, slightly sweet and smoky with a punch of heat; it's been slow-roasting overnight with ancho chiles.A Sandwich a Day: Huipil Torta Al Pastor at Huipil in Redwood City, CA
Huipil, a new family-owned restaurant in Redwood City, has a short menu of incredibly delicious Mexican food. One standout item is the Huipil Torta ($8), which comes stuffed with your choice of milanesa, carne asada, al pastor, hamon, chorizo, shrimp, or fish. My favorite filling is the al pastor; the slow cooked rotisserie pork is smoky, juicy, and studded with pieces of grilled pineapple.A Sandwich a Day: Pastor Torta at Carnitas Los Reyes in Orange, CA
This hole-in-the-wall taqueria in Orange, California, may be named after the fatty and flavorful carnitas, but almost everything else on the menu is just as regal. Los Reyes' pastor—rich, heavily flavored and as crisp and chewy as it is tender—is especially nice in a torta.Hot Dog of the Week: Torta De Salchicha
Not technically a hot dog—more like a delicious cross between Mexican torta sandwich and hot dog. [Photographs and original artwork: Hawk Krall] Past Weeks' Dogs Tuscan Tony Zweigle's Cincinnati Cheese ConeyTexas TommyPhilly Dirty Water DogChicago Dog I might be pushing the definition of "hot dog" with this one, but this monster of a sandwich was just too good to ignore. On a recent trip to Brooklyn I stopped at the Puebla Mini Mart (aka "Don Pepe's") in Sunset Park for a bite before an all-day hot dog excursion. The colorful bodega with a full-service grill and tables in the back had a wild menu with more varieties of tortas than you ever thought possible. But I did a double-take when...Serious Sandwiches: "La Cubana" Torta from La Casita Chilanga
Who doesn't know what a burrito is? Taco, of course. Quesadilla? No problema. Torta? Well, they don't have those at Taco Bell! Even if you are familiar with the Mexican Sandwich that is the torta, (not to be confused with the Spanish egg "torta") you probably don't know the torta. Why? Because no two are alike, and every region/state/restaurant/bodega has their own version. Meat or no meat? Sliced avocado or guacamole? Black beans or refried beans? The permutations are endless, and you'd be hard pressed to the find the "perfect" torta. That is, until you try the version from La Casita Chilanga, a tiny torta specialist on Middlefield Rd., the "Little Mexico" of Silicon Valley....Incarceration Tortas And Pambazos
The Houston Press' Robb Walsh recently visited local taquería Mexico's Deli, where all the sandwiches have jailhouse-themed names like the "fugitiva," the "convicta" and the "tortura": In the 1970s, [owner] Alex [Garcia] explained, he opened his first taquería in Mexico City. Spoofing the hit musical La Cage aux Folles (The Bird Cage), he called the restaurant La Jaula de Tacos (the taco cage). In keeping with the "cage" theme, the tortas were named after prisons. The incarceration tortas were a big hit, and Alex went on to open four more restaurants in Mexico City. But his mini-chain collapsed with the devaluation of the peso during the Carlos Salinas de Gortari regime. So Alex came to Houston to start over.On my...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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