Your Birria Taco Is Ancient History-Here’s Why | Beyond the Menu

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  • čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
  • We’re at peak birria these days, where every taqueria in town seems to have adopted its own version. Though this food trend is new to the U.S., birria itself has been around for quite some time. In fact, birria is a perfect collection of some of humanity’s oldest cooking techniques and ingredients merged together into one perfect hand-held treat. It’s a dish that owes its existence to the perseverence of ancient traditions that span thousands of years, across all sides of the globe.
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    #foodhistory #birria #tacos #beyondthemenu #mexico
    Thanks to El Garage in Richmond, California for showing us how to make their family’s version of birria tacos.
    📖 Chapters:
    0:00 What is birria?
    0:51 El Garage, one of the Bay Area’s best places for birra tacos
    1:35 The legend of Guadalupe Zarate, the father of modern birria
    2:19 Birria de chivo and the importance of goats
    3:17 Goats, Wikipedia, and a common misconception
    4:34 What makes birria, birria?
    5:59 Chilies - the powerhouse of Mesoamerican cuisine
    7:00 How birria became popular in the U.S.
    7:59 How religious expulsion led to cilantro being in Mexican food
    8:50 Keeping traditions alive generation after generation
    Read More:
    🍖The Great Birria Boom, by Bill Esparza www.eater.com/22215718/how-bi...
    🍖The Food System During The Formative Period in West Mesoamerica: www.researchgate.net/publicat...
    🍖The Birria Boom Is Complicated, but Simply Delicious
    www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/di...
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    About Beyond The Menu:
    The story of the food on your plate is more than just the recipe. Each ingredient and every cooking technique goes back hundreds if not thousands of years, traversing the globe on a wildly delicious cross-cultural adventure. In KQED’s new digital food series Beyond The Menu, host Cecilia Phillips interviews chefs, authors, and other experts to dig up surprising facts on the cultural pathways of today’s trendiest dishes. It’s a history show, it’s a mystery series, it’s a celebration of multicultural cuisine, sometimes it’s even a science program, all set against the backdrop of mouth-watering food cinematography.
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Komentáře • 49

  • @KQEDFood
    @KQEDFood  Před 3 měsíci +8

    🐐🌮You already knew birria is the GOAT, now you know what goats have to do with the history of the dish.

  • @janelleblarg
    @janelleblarg Před 3 měsíci +6

    She’s not wrong about El Garage. One of the best taco spots in the east bay.

  • @AboveTheNoise
    @AboveTheNoise Před 3 měsíci +4

    This is fascinating, and I'm so hungry now. Thank you.

  • @Get.YouTube.Views.756
    @Get.YouTube.Views.756 Před 3 měsíci +6

    This video is like a warm hug in the form of pixels and sound. So comforting!

  • @ceciliaphillips1890
    @ceciliaphillips1890 Před 3 měsíci +2

    So excited that Beyond the Menu is getting DEEEEP with the food history!

  • @TheMrSlyxx
    @TheMrSlyxx Před 3 měsíci +5

    I clicked on this cuz I was hungry. Why can't this place be down the street from me? 🤣🌮🌮🌮

  • @rikomatic
    @rikomatic Před 3 měsíci +3

    I don't eat beef, but damn do I want a birria taco now.

  • @SkaterStimm
    @SkaterStimm Před 3 měsíci +1

    As a gringo, I have been going to my local Birria spot and ordering carne asada or California burritos, or been burritos, I need to try their queso Birria tacos!

  • @aurelioperez3517
    @aurelioperez3517 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Aurelio’s in Southern California makes the greatest birria quesadilla

  • @julialee4036
    @julialee4036 Před 3 měsíci +2

    You are a wonderful host(ess)! Love the history aspect of this show.

  • @timolson5688
    @timolson5688 Před 3 měsíci

    yummy, and bonus, what a cool car Cecilia is driving in that episode🚙😋

  • @junzon
    @junzon Před 3 měsíci +1

    Yes!! Near where i live❤❤

  • @andrewkolb6309
    @andrewkolb6309 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Mmm Birria Tacos Yummy!

  • @joeriveracomedy
    @joeriveracomedy Před 3 měsíci +2

    I never heard of it until the el pollo loco commercial

    • @KQEDFood
      @KQEDFood  Před 3 měsíci +1

      Taco Bell has also released their version of quesabirria.

  • @julialee4036
    @julialee4036 Před 3 měsíci +6

    Hooray for Richmond! Thanks for visitng!

    • @KQEDFood
      @KQEDFood  Před 3 měsíci

      Our pleasure! We love Richmond.

  • @dannyskarka2895
    @dannyskarka2895 Před 3 měsíci

    "approximately...it's very small" hilarious!

  • @Clem68W
    @Clem68W Před 3 měsíci +1

    People really been eatin' food this whole time? Wild.

  • @bigbird2451
    @bigbird2451 Před 3 měsíci +1

    We used to walk down the street for Taco Tuesday at Efran's, and I would order what I called "The whole barnyard." Two chicken, two pork, two beef and two goat. I was kind of heartbroken when I found out that I wasn't really getting goat.

  • @vf12497439
    @vf12497439 Před 3 měsíci +1

    You got me at tacos!! I would rather mine be beef please😂 goat isn’t a thing I crave. Oregon USA here😋

  • @NW_7_23
    @NW_7_23 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Love this!! Adobo makes everything better! 😊

  • @cgomezh2h
    @cgomezh2h Před 3 měsíci +3

    Birria is from Jalisco and the juice is called consome

  • @chrisandersen5635
    @chrisandersen5635 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Mmmm, now I want tacos birrias. Great series Cecilia. Keep em coming. 😊

  • @armandosanchez4830
    @armandosanchez4830 Před 3 měsíci +1

    This looks so good

  • @leesagrrl
    @leesagrrl Před 3 měsíci +2

    Awesome! Thanx so much!

    • @KQEDFood
      @KQEDFood  Před 3 měsíci +1

      Thanks for watching!

    • @leesagrrl
      @leesagrrl Před 3 měsíci

      @@KQEDFood My mouth is still watering... mmmmm...

  • @jrosales9729
    @jrosales9729 Před 3 měsíci +1

    🤤

  • @fischman26-China
    @fischman26-China Před 3 měsíci

    Never heard of a birria taco but it looks pretty good. Does Taco Bell have this on their menu?

    • @KQEDFood
      @KQEDFood  Před 3 měsíci

      Some locations actually do have a version of this.

  • @OutlawSpaceWizard
    @OutlawSpaceWizard Před 3 měsíci +1

    birria is the only mexican food i like. but godamn is it beast

  • @frankmunoz7767
    @frankmunoz7767 Před 3 měsíci

    Come to Hawaii

  • @bobhansen9308
    @bobhansen9308 Před 3 měsíci

    literally paused the video to go buy tacos and come back

    • @KQEDFood
      @KQEDFood  Před 3 měsíci

      This is the vibe we all aspire to.

  • @ricodelavega4511
    @ricodelavega4511 Před 3 měsíci +3

    so it went from iguana meat (the aztecs), to goat (mestizos), to beef (gringo mexican)....very interesting.

    • @KQEDFood
      @KQEDFood  Před 3 měsíci

      🦎 ➡️🐐➡️🐄🌮

    • @cerano2598
      @cerano2598 Před 3 měsíci

      i like the taste of all 3 😝

  • @testerchannelcycle
    @testerchannelcycle Před 3 měsíci +2

    there's no such thing as too cheesy

  • @MrSunlander
    @MrSunlander Před 3 měsíci

    Tee-huana..

  • @TankDavisConquers
    @TankDavisConquers Před 3 měsíci

    "Ancient" ?

  • @jrvilchis55
    @jrvilchis55 Před 3 měsíci

    Everybody is lying about it. It is a new food or invention from California or New York. But Birria tacos is clearly not mexican. Probably some roots and ingredients. Everybody ishould stop lying.

  • @juanpedroza2216
    @juanpedroza2216 Před 3 měsíci

    Pretty much all food has history 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

  • @juancervantes313
    @juancervantes313 Před 3 měsíci

    its honest;y overrated.

  • @johnnymaximum3828
    @johnnymaximum3828 Před 3 měsíci

    Can-so-mae
    what the fucking shit..

  • @MitchBast-xu7jg
    @MitchBast-xu7jg Před 3 měsíci

    I am an Anglo man who believes GOAT is delicious . Yummy 😋