Vive Minnesota celebrates growing Latino influence on state culture

In reviewing Indio for this week’s issue, Rachel Hutton makes an interesting observation about the growing influence of Latino culture on the Twin Cities’ foodscape:

In the not so recent past, most Twin Citians who didn’t grow up eating Mexican food knew it only in the form of Chi-Chi’s or Taco Bell, where “cooking” meant squirting guacamole out of something that looked like a caulking gun. But as the local Latino population has swelled in recent decades, authentic Mexican cuisine has flourished. El Burrito Mercado moved to its iconic Concord Street space; Mercado Central brought south Minneapolis a lively Latin American marketplace; and the local Scandinavian stock learned to enjoy Mexican food at places that didn’t tone down the spice or drown dishes in dairy.”*

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