Vive Minnesota celebrates growing Latino influence on state culture From: blogs.citypages.com

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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