![]() And tacos al pastor contain pork not lamb. You see, I was summoned to Sunday school as a child (and sometimes actually went there instead of the Dairy Queen), at a tender age I already knew that shepherds watch their sheep by night not their pigs. Which seemed very strange to me when I first arrived in San Miguel de Allende. The term al pastor can be defined as in “the style of the shepherd”. Recognizing the significance of the event and, perhaps more so because she was hungry, Don Day’s Wife agreed. So in honor of this wonderful way of cooking pork, I suggested I take Don Day’s Wife for an extravagant lunch at San Miguel’s Tuesday Market so we could pay homage in harmony. ![]() Old favorites like the taco al pastor will be back along with new items in our menu.Did you know that October is Pastor Appreciation Month? Really. We will resume our regular service this Spring 2018. We have shut down for the winter season but we remain available for catering and private events. ![]() And should there be some 12 year old who walked 4 blocks to reach our truck just to savor our taco al pastor, my fervent hope is that kid would think that the experience was…almost religious. The taco al pastor is a staple in our menu and we hope, eventually, it will become a lunch staple here in Murfreesboro. Last but not the least, of course, the pineapple. Instead of the traditional salsa verde, we serve our taco al pastor with a cilantro cream sauce. We marinate our pork overnight in a variety of chiles, giving it its smoky and sweet blend. It was an experience I never forgot, as the smoky, slightly spicy meat played with the sweet & tangy taste of the pineapple.Īnd it’s an experience we try to replicate. As if icing on the cake, he swiftly cut off a couple of chunks of pineapple from the top of the trompo and placed these on the taco. I lined up at a venerable taco institution in LA and watched as a taquero expertly sliced pork from the trompo (vertical grill) and into the warm tortilla. ![]() I savored my first taco al pastor back in California, where I spent the last decade. Over time, it gained widespread popularity all over Mexico.Īside from the difference in the type of meat, the taco al pastor is served on a corn tortilla instead of a pita, and prepared with cilantro, coriander, pineapple & lime. The story goes that Mexican shepherds adopted this practice, hence the name, but substituted lamb with pork. When Lebanese immigrants first came to Mexico in early 20th century, they brought with them their spit-roasted lamb aka shawarma. The taco al pastor or shepherd’s style taco is said to have originated from the shawarma. ![]() But even more so, how closely that original resembles its descendant– the taco al pastor. Its popularity has since then dwindled but it is not uncommon to find places that still sell the shawarma to this day.įast forward to 2017 and here I am, now in Tennessee instead of Manila and I’m trying to remember how the shawarma of my childhood stacks up and how closely it approximates the original. On days I had extra money with me, I would walk about 4 blocks from our old house to the closest stand and procure what was then the most coveted food item in the city. I must have been 11 or 12 when out of nowhere, proliferation of shawarma stands erupted, seemingly overnight. Shawarma was big in my native Manila back in the late 90s. Then there are food trends that come and become a cuisine staple. ![]()
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