Great local history and reporting in this missive on local food, culture and a tragic fact of life: Hipsters are capable of ruining EVERYTHING.
Money line: "The Kansas City taco isn’t cool anymore, even as tacos are more popular there than ever before, cooked by Americans and Mexicans alike."
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Money line: "The Kansas City taco isn’t cool anymore, even as tacos are more popular there than ever before, cooked by Americans and Mexicans alike."
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Will the 'Authenticity' Obsession Kill Kansas City's Homegrown Tacos?
Luis Silva didn't settle in Kansas City to work on the railroad. But he did move because of it. By the time Silva, an immigrant from Guadalajara via Omaha, arrived in 1922 to sell insurance, Mexican workers accounted for more than 85 percent of the Kansas City-area railroad labor force, according to the Kansas Historical Society.