Taco Night Done Right: 10 Mexican & Tex-Mex Dishes Worth Making at Home

Mexican food is not what most of the world thinks it is. It is one of the world's great cuisines — as complex, as regionally diverse, and as technically demanding as the French or Chinese traditions with which it is rarely compared. The 2010 recognition of Mexican cuisine as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO acknowledged what cooks in Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz have always known: that this is a living tradition built on centuries of pre-Columbian agricultural knowledge, Spanish colonial influence, and the particular genius of Mexican women who turned corn, chilli, chocolate, and beans into something the world has not stopped craving since.