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“In terms of tacos, America has come a long way since Glenn Bell opened his first Mexican-American restaurant in 1954. But weve been a long time getting there.
“The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink” Oxford University Press, $49.95 suggests that we have Bell to thank for the widespread American corruption of the Mexican taco. Bell invented a prefabricated hard taco shell that didnt have to be cooked before serving.
Bell, who went on to found Taco Bell in 1962, overcame American distrust of ethnic fare by making tacos analogous to hamburgers: ground meat, tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, yellow cheese, with the crunchy shell standing in for the bun.”
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