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OH GOD I DIED SO GOOD
Do you just lean out your office window and scream your order?
gross
dammit. I am not driving to the hill for lunch. I will just stay here in Georgetown. Hmm, shall it be McD’s, BK, or Arby’s. gawddammit.
4: You may find culinary dignity at Georgetown’s Hangar Cafe.
Tried them for the first time last night. Very good, but not enough toppings by the time I got to the bottom. I will know next time and try to ration it out.
Also, did they reduce the amount that comes with their rice and bean bowl?! I wish they’d have raised the price instead 🙁
#4: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetravelin…
Screw the nachos. Tell me more about that book.
When work changed their web filter, I didnt realize how many ads were on SLOG. Now were getting them in the form of a blog entry?
Somebody didn’t invite nugget to lunch! I’m huuuuuungry!
@8 – It’s the Granta Young Spanish Novelists collection from this winter (available in English and Spanish). Like all collections some great, some poor, most in-between. Most are inappropriate for high school courses. If you’re dying for contemporary lit from Spain and Latin America definitely pick it up.
There was a fun event at EB last week or the week before with three of the writers,( though guest David Gutterson needed to STFU).
(I also recommend the Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction collection from a few years ago, though that’s a beast of an object to hold while reading. It’s parallel text too.)
@11, thanks! When you say “parallel text” do you mean that it’s English and Spanish both, on facing pages? Or do I have to buy two books, both the English and Spanish versions? I need something modern to read in Spanish as a learning tool. My Spanish is crappy but with a parallel text I can usually grind my way through it. The Mexican one actually sounds really interesting.
Man I love nachos.
Their Carnitas Burrito is one of the best things I have ever put in my mouth.
You know, when I look at a plate of nachos like that, all I can think is, that would be even better with huitlacoche (and without the sour cream). Also: habañero salsa. I also prefer refried pinto beans over black beans, but I’m flexible. God, I’m hungry.
@12 – The Mexican Fiction has facing pages espanol/english. The Granta is two separate books.
(re-reading my comment I would encourage any high school kids studying Spanish to read them. Just don’t tell your uptight parents the stories have a lot of fucking and drugs. And kids, read Bolano’s Savage Detectives/Los Detectivos Salvajes, so much cooler than Kerouac or Bukowski)
West 5 has demonstrably better nachos, which you’d know if you ever left the hill. Also, Husky Deli stomps all over Molly Moon’s face.
@16, 100% agreed on Bolano, and if you’re the one here who told me to read it thank you. I read it with a map of Mexico City open at my side!
Top or inconsiderate bottom? Flip a coin.
@18 – Fnarf – If you haven’t already, check out “Down and Delirious in Mexico City” by Daniel Hernandez. About Mexico City subcultures circa 2008-2010. Been out 2 months, probably already out of date, but would have explained some of the scenes I came across just last fall.
@20, I preordered it and read it in a sitting the day it arrived. He’s a little out there for me, because I’m old and he’s young, but that’s fantastic. The only thing I didn’t like about it was that it wasn’t 2,000 pages long. A great book, and a great companion to David Lida’s “First Stop” and John Ross’s “El Monstruo”. I even follow Hernandez’s blog and in the LA Times now.
I loved the bits about the emo wars in Insurgentes. It was a great way to visualize parts of the city before visiting it this past Feb.
I had to look it up, Fnarf. Corn smut.
I’ve been dieting since March. I miss corn chips. I miss sour cream. I miss crema Mexicana. I miss Mexican food altogether. Sigh.
MY KRYPTONITE!
@22, it’s amazing. It tastes like corn, but also like mushrooms, but sweet. Looks like dripping black rotted flesh, which is a problem, but it’s so, so good. You can get it in little cans at some Mexican markets, packed by Herdez or Goya or one of those, but it’s expensive — $5 or $6 for a teeny can. Worth it. Godlike in quesadillas, where the tortillas are flaky and just ever-so-slightly charred. Drool.
Infarto en platillo
@8 and @11 — The next installment of Nightstand will be about the sexy-young-Spanish-novelists edition of Granta and that sexless event at Elliott Bay. Stay tuned!