Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is the Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in Humanities at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA. He is the author of seven books, including Naciones intelectuales: Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana 1917-1959 (2009, winner of the LASA Mexico 2010 Humanities Book Award) and the editor or co-editor of fifteen books. His public writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders and other publications. He serves as editor of two book series: Latin American Cinema at SUNY Press and Critical Mexican Studies at Vanderbilt University Press. He served as the Kluge Chair for the Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress in 2021.

"Starting with a tour of Mexico City taco shops, this book takes us so much farther, to Los Angeles and Monterrey, of course, but also to Berlin and Seoul. Ignacio Sánchez Prado serves up tradition and modernity, memory and authenticity, politics and identity, all wrapped in a fresh tortilla with plenty of salsa." --Jeffrey M. Pilcher, author of Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food

"This book is both a fantastic crónica across a diverse global tacoscape, and an introduction to the vast knowledge of a master tacólogo. Sánchez Prado has written a book to be reflected on and savored, preferably with a taco, either basic or elevated." --Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, author of Nocturno de Frontera

"In his taco tour de force, Ignacio Sánchez Prado pays homage to a beloved childhood food and a Mexican culinary icon. He moves beyond well-worn debates about authenticity and tradition to demonstrate how the taco was a central feature of a uniquely Mexican modernity." --Ronda L. Brulotte, author of Mezcal in Oaxaca: A Craft Spirit for the Global Marketplace

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Pub date: 2025-10-16

Length: 160 pages