Sunny Days, Taco Nights - Enrique Olvera

While Enrique Olvera is known for his sophisticated Mexican cuisine, his true passion is the everyday taco, which he regards as the most ‘democratic’ of foods.

Olvera’s latest cookbook offers the ultimate guide to this beloved food, exploring the taco’s history and many different styles, its ingredients and accompaniments, and much more. The book shares 100 recipes designed for home cooks, arranged into two main chapters: Classics, which features street tacos; and Originals, which explores Olvera’s contemporary reinventions of well-known originals.

Enrique Olvera is Mexico’s leading chef and beloved globally by diners, foodies, book buyers, and the chef community. His Mexico City restaurant Pujol has been ranked for many years on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. He also has several restaurants in Mexico and the United States (Cosme, Atla, Esse Taco, and Damian). He has appeared on Netflix’s Chef’s Table and Ugly Delicious. In 2022, he received the lifetime achievement award from the Culinary Institute of America. He is the author of Mexico from the Inside Out (2015) and Tu Casa Mi Casa (2019), also published in English and Spanish by Phaidon. 

Alonso Ruvalcaba is a taco-obsessed Mexican food critic, who has written about tacos for major publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Bon Appetit, and Vice.