“Conversos” el nuevo camión de tacos Kosher en las calles de El Paso

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Since 2005, Texas-born conceptual artist and former Heeb photo editor, Peter  Svarzbein has been interviewing and photographing Latino families in the  American Southwest who are returning to Judaism — believing their ancestors were  Conversos, forced converts to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition.

Svarzbein, 33, was looking for a way for more people to feast their eyes on  these portraits of Crypto Jews and to chew on the historic circumstances that  connect Latinos and Jewish traditions. That’s when he came up with the idea for  a food truck — a kosher taco truck, to be exact.

With the support of various organizations in his native El Paso, Svarzbein  launched Conversos y  Tacos Kosher Gourmet Trucks, an innovative and interactive art  installation than ran for a week in the city in far West Texas in late July.


Over the week, the truck made six stops at various community and food events  around El Paso (where Szarzbein grew up in a culturally Jewish family with a  Hispanic-Ashkenazi background), serving fusion taco plates melding Jewish and  Mexican cuisine. The food reflected the questions Svarzbein wants to challenge  people with, like: How can a person be both Jewish and Latino? How can culture,  religion and identity fuse together over, or through, the U.S.-Mexico  border?

The artist teamed up with local chef Jose Cazares of Hello  Day Café to come up with three unique tacos inspired by both Jewish and  Latino food. The first was a pickle and brisket taco (“a deli experience on a  corn tortilla”), the second was a chicken shawarma taco served with Israeli  salad and tahini, and the third was a kosher carne asada taco with pico de gallo  and cilantro. All three were served together, along with a latke and a jalapeno  dipping sauce with a soy sauce base. Conversos y Tacos charged patrons  a symbolic $6.13 for the whole plate.

Sourcing the kosher meat for these special tacos was not so simple. Svarzbein  got some of it from fellow El Paso native Ari  White, who has been wowing New York recently with his pop-up kosher  Texas-style barbeque (his smoker is called HaKadosh BBQ). “We had to go to the  Trader Joe’s in Albuquerque, New Mexico for the rest of the kosher chicken and  brisket,” Svarzbein said.

Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/the-jew-and-the-carrot/181393/taking-a-bite-of-converso-history-through-tacos/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Food&utm_campaign=Food%2520Newsletter%25202013-07-31#ixzz2cplow4pP

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