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https://www.lamag.com/digestblog/meet-argentine-tv-chef-maru-botana-the-taco-terrorist/
>Last week, Argentine celebrity and award winning chef Maru Botana of Argentina’s Maru, en Casa and Sabado en Casa, created an international incident. Her crime? No less than the desecration of Mexican gastronomy. On her personal web page, Maru TV, she portrayed the making of an entirely false taco recipe.

>Botana has since been attacked in newspapers, online publications, and on social networks where her ridiculous recipe was called “an act of taco terrorism.” Tabascan chef Aquiles Chaves from Houston’s La Fisheria, and star of Fox Life’s Aquilisimo, scolded the Argentine chef thusly via twitter: “Mrs. Botana, it’s not enough to have good intentions to teach true Mexican tacos; you should study and investigate.” He went on to say, “to be in front of the camera is a great responsibility.”

>In Maru’s video (which has since been removed from her website), new ground was broken. To make her tortillas, she mixed corn and wheat flour, salt—that’s a no-no-—with 10 tablespoons of vegetable oil, which isn’t an ingredient in either flour or corn tortillas, and certainly not for hybrid flour and corn tortillas. But the most outrageous moment came when she rolled a tortilla onto the press and then put the whole press directly on the burner—that’s something you don’t see every day, or ever. Not in this, our modern day, and not in the more than 3,500 year history of hand-made corn tortillas.

>The filling was made from eggplant, chicken (note there are no chicken tacos in Mexico, unless you’re from Mexicali) tofu, and other vegetables. To add insult to injury, Botana sautéed the ingredients in a wok!

tacos in a wok? really?
not only wypipo can't come up with good cuisine of their own, they steal those of other cultures and can't even make it properly
this also applies to all the fake texmex shit you see in America

>> No.12542373 [DELETED] 

Do brown people really care about tacos that much? lmao

>> No.12542374

>>12542364
Tex-mex isn't fake Mexican food, it's hybrid American-Mexican food.

>> No.12542378
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>>12542374
>disgusting greasy slop with cardboard tortillas
>muh hybrid
fuck off

>> No.12542387

This is the stupidest thing to get upset about I have read in a long time.

>> No.12542402

>>12542387

Take a look around the board, fren, there's probably someone losing their shit about a candy bar from the 90s or something.

>> No.12542409

>>12542402
What the fuck do you even know about candy bars faggot? You wouldnt know the difference between a mounds an almond joy if I had a gun to your whore mothers head.

>> No.12542420

So is multiculturalism a good thing or not?

>> No.12542429

Mexico is one of the murder capitals of the world and they are worried about tacos?

>> No.12542433 [DELETED] 

>>12542429
Since they escaped their shithole and came to places like Houston, they don't have to worry about the murder and shit anymore, just tacos.

>> No.12542443

No one cares about your stupid pancakes dumbass

>> No.12542459

>>12542373
Yes. It's the only marketable part of their "culture"

>> No.12542478 [DELETED] 

I blame Ameriburgers and their social media 'outrage over trivial things' culture

>> No.12542481

>>12542364
aren't mexicans busy dying on the american border?
who gives a shit about what they think

>> No.12542483

>>12542478
Oh eat a bag of shit like your country isnt full of college aged pussies whining on the Internet.

>> No.12542491 [DELETED] 
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>>12542459
at least it's something
burgers have no culture to speak of

>> No.12542492

She deserves it solely for being part of the most privileged group on earth.

>> No.12542498

>>12542483
That's why I said I blame you carbonated sugar water swilling fat fucks, you are the cause of all of it

>> No.12542504

>>12542491
lol, American culture is the world's culture now. Sad but true.

>> No.12542512

>>12542364
Who. Fucking. Cares.

What an absolute waste of energy to get upset over this. I hate people that think chefs have some personal responsibility to preserve a culture's traditional food. They should just make whatever the fuck they like. Freedom of expression. How else are we supposed to discover new recipes?

>> No.12542513 [DELETED] 
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12542513

Looks tasty.

>> No.12542518

>ARGENTINOS SON BLANCOS!

>> No.12542522

>>12542491
Oh please. We have a ton of culture. I'm sorry you're not lucky enough to have ever came here and experienced it. The world idolizes US culture.

>> No.12542524

>>12542364
I don't get it, did she specifically claim her recipe was for *Mexican* tacos? Any Latin American country can claim tacos and their iteration is equally valid, Mexico doesn't own that.
>But wikipedia says it's a Mexican innovation
And if I find the editor who wrote that shit, I'm gonna castrate him with dull pruning shears and drag him naked over broken glass behind my truck.

>> No.12542530
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>>12542364
So where's the line between fusion cuisine and insulting a culture

>> No.12542537

>>12542530
The real question is, why should a culture even feel insulted over food? Sounds overly sensitive

>> No.12542540

>>12542498
I'm gonna shit on your moms tits and beat her with a hammer

>> No.12542541

>amerimutts enraged over other country behalf
I mean, they are 44% mexicans after all.

>> No.12542549

>>12542433
>move to houston with all the """youths"""
>don't have to worry about murder

>> No.12542555

>>12542541
This, actual Mexicans enjoy Taco Bell and other American slop and don't care that it's not muh authentic.

>> No.12542556

>>12542537
Where do you think you are right now?

>> No.12542557

>>12542556
On /ck/?

>> No.12542587

>>12542364
Argie here, this looks like some random twitter banter I wouldn't take it seriously. I do take issue at Maru Botana being called an "award winning chef" though, she's some TV meme chef that makes recipes for bored housewives and not really taken seriously. Glad they are calling her out on her bullshit.

>>12542524
We don't have tacos or variants in our cuisine though. It's seen as a foreign food here. Argie cuisine is mostly beef, Patagonian lamb, empanadas, locro and Italian dishes like gnocci, milanesas, pizza and gelatto. Also the Welsh pastries in the south (torta galesa) which are God tier.

>> No.12542639

>>12542429
I'm gonna taco terrorize you rn you lil shit

>> No.12542679

>>12542478
That's more of a northern native American thing than anything. Even Canadian native Americans get pissed about the smallest thing like Trudeau not being a "real liberal" because he doesn't do much to help them. Fuckin, even that twink quackityhq on YouTube tried shutting a website down because he couldn't wear pants in a video game unless he paid a subscription to it and then complained about free speech.

>> No.12542693

>>12542373
She is teaching the recipe on national tv, so I guess learning to make them is important for argies

>> No.12542720

>>12542693
We have Mexican restaurants and other ethnic restaurants, and the actual chefs there know how to make tacos, she is a meme chef making some BS "healthy" variant and they are right to call her out. I doubt anyone has ever learned anything about cuisine from fucking Maru Botana.

>> No.12542732

>>12542679
You're drunk again, aren't you Canada?

>> No.12543417

>>12542374

Faggot tex-mex food is an act of terrorism.

>> No.12543428

>>12542720
Have you even tasted her taco?

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>>12542420
Depends on the cultures and whether it happens naturally or by force from the State.

>>12542402
Haven't eaten one of these since they started calling them Twix. They say they only changed the name, but I can taste the difference!

>> No.12543512

>>12542420
Please kill yourself.

>> No.12543521

>Maru Botana
This is our version of Sandra Lee of "Semi-Homemade Cooking" fame. She's pretty much a celebrity housewife. There's nothing wrong per se with that, you just need to understand that the culinary bar has to be set for the lowest common denominator, because she pretty much is one, and for them to appeal to your stereotypical wine mom. Expect everything she makes to be some sort of """""healthy""""" according to the latest meme diet, incorporate whatever's currently hyped en masse in the culinary world, needless """technical""" flair that tries to be """creative""" but does nothing for the dish at best, and very usually dumbing things down to the point of making wildly inappropriate substitutions for whatever a busy mom is likely to have on hand. Nobody, and I mean nobody, takes Maru Botana for a culinary tour de force here, except perhaps for the wine moms that cook even worse than her. The only exception to have talked better than indifferently about her is my next door neighbor's wife, and her cooking is so bad I've seen the poor guy feed their dog the leftovers when she leaves so he doesn't have to eat them (her ass is tight and I'm guessing pussy game must be on point).

If Francis Malman or something did a meme like that I could understand the reaction, but brown manlets are blowing everything out of proportion.

>> No.12543557

>>12542364

fuck off. taco bell is literally the pinnacle of the entire southern hemispheres cuisine, they have zero room to criticize anything whatsoever.

>> No.12543574

TexMex is better than any Mexican food

>> No.12543575

>>12542364
>Argentina
>White

>> No.12543709

>>12542537
no one actually cares, theyre all just having a laugh and making the neurotic white lady squirm

>> No.12543843

>>12542364
This whole thing reminds me of what what the Italian Chef Massimo Bottura said in interviews. He said modern Italian cuisine really stagnated against other great European cuisines until the 90s because Italian culinary world was so obsessed with tradition, the entire chef community scolded anybody daring to deviate from "nonna's recipes." He also says in order to find new ways to enjoy food, you have to look in the past and tradition with critical eyes not blind deference and nostalgia, and this is where a lot of chefs fail.

>> No.12543859

>>12542364
Latrineos are just pathetic.

They are so lacking they have to cling to muh food which is not even that great to begin with.

If they worried more about making nations worth living in and less about muh food they would be better off.

>> No.12543862

>>12543859
Chile is pretty nice, and Santiago is safe to walk around alone at night.

>> No.12543863

>>12542364
FUCK MEXICO AND FUCK MEXICANS

>> No.12543891

>>12542429

Yes, they are a dumb low end child like people.

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>>12543862
Yeah Argentina, Chile and Parguay are alright. Nothing like the brown shitholes that send illegals to America.

>> No.12543914

>>12542364
>white people
>Argentina

>> No.12544381

>>12542378
Did you just post a taco bell tostada and claim it's texmex?

>> No.12544481

>>12543859
Quiet, Sharto McWalmarto

>> No.12544505

Aren't tacos like.. not Argentinian? It's like being outraged that an ignorant Spaniard or a Hungarian made tacos "le wrong way!!1"

>> No.12544524

>>12542420
Localized solely within North America it's okay and it produces some kino food