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Xochitl Taqueria
Mexican restaurant · Clinton Hill ·
Family Recipes at the Michelin-Starred Casa Enrique | The New Yorker
"Opened in midtown in 1938, this early Mexican eatery was founded by Juvencio Maldonado, who sailed from the Yucatán and named the place after an Aztec goddess. Maldonado even patented a mechanical taco-shell fryer and printed a glossary of imported culinary terms for befuddled diners (for example, tortilla: “a flat, round corn cake, about 6 inches in diameter and 1/16 inch thick . . . can be bent or rolled, as we shall explain.”). For decades Xochitl was virtually the only game in town, an early anchor of Mexican food in New York." - David Kortava
