Hard Shell Tacos: A Reunion

I eat a lot of tacos.  I keep a pack of corn tortillas around at all times.  Thanks to folks like Rick Bayless, I’ve even branched out to mushroom and swiss chard tacos, huevos rancheros, shrimp, and the granddaddy of them all, our very own Fish Tacos .  Glorious, ethereal fish tacos.

This is all rather strange coming from someone who only ate hard shell tacos for the first 16-17 years...

Fried Pickles, Busch Light, and Other Adventures in Fine Cuisine

A glistening can of Busch doesn’t excite many culinary possibilities in my mind.  Had we not been tempted by fate, that sad can of piss-beer probably would have sat undisturbed in the fridge for a long, long time.  But the events were right for a breakthrough.  I feel safe in saying that this little can of beer fulfilled its highest culinary possibility.

It was the last thing I expected to...