{"id":8725,"date":"2012-09-23T11:48:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T18:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=8725"},"modified":"2012-09-23T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T19:12:02","slug":"ask-a-mexican-how-tacos-conquered-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/ask-a-mexican-how-tacos-conquered-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask A Mexican How Tacos Conquered America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/aska.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Has salsa replaced ketchup as our favorite condiment? Gustavo Arellano answers that question in his latest book, <em>Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America<\/em>. The author of \u00a1Ask a Mexican! column, which invites readers to ask him questions about Mexican American culture, reaches more than two million people in 39 newspapers. At a guest presentation in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/ventura.html\">Ventura<\/a> on Sunday, October 14, Arellano plans to talk about the\u00a0 America&#8217;s appetite for Mexican food and Ventura&#8217;s Ortega Adobe, where the famous chilies originated. After his lecture, the author will sign his book, which will be available for purchase. You can also buy his book on Amazon.com and read his ocweekly.com column for entertaining discussion in Q&amp;A format.<\/p>\n<p>Time: October 14, 2012, 2 p.m. Admission: $5, $3 student or senior, and includes free entry to all exhibit galleries at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/ventura-county.html\">Museum of Ventura County<\/a>. Lecture reservations recommended, call 805-653-0323 x 7. Location: 100 East Main Street, Ventura, CA. venturamuseum.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has salsa replaced ketchup as our favorite condiment? Gustavo Arellano answers that question in his latest book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. The author of \u00a1Ask a Mexican! column, which invites readers to ask him questions about Mexican American culture, reaches more than two million people in 39 newspapers. At a guest presentation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}