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In the past I have posted some pretty tricky recipes for exotic foods across the globe.  I did this thinking perhaps many of you are pretty swift in the kitchen or could at least follow a recipe enough not to burn your house down.  Today’s recipe isn’t as thrilling or complicated as most, but I am surprised at the number of people who say they know how to make tacos and then pull out a box of ready made shells!  The horror!  I’m going to save my lecture on how learning to cook foods from another region does more for embracing cultures than dining at your local ethnic eating spot and being a critic or ooohing at how delicious and exotic and spicy and flavorful everything tastes.  You already know that.

Without further delay today’s recipe comes from Mex-recipes and you’re going to bring the smells and taste of Mexican Beef Taco’s from scratch into your home.  When you really get good at it, you can doctor them up as you wish, but for now let’s stick to the basics.  And happy cooking!

Vinography: a wine blog — That's the Culinary Institute of America, by the way, (not the Central Intelligence Agency). Thanks to a tip from Amy over at Cooking With Amy, I learned this morning that the CIA is offering a free online wine course, presumably as a hook to get people into their overall online offering. Not wanting to subject my readers to anything untested and potentially schmaltzy, I took it myself this morning so I could bring you a full review. In all, it's a reasonably good course for wine novices who are looking to learn a bit more about wine. I think if...

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