{"id":8282,"date":"2011-03-28T09:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=8282"},"modified":"2011-03-28T11:31:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T18:31:42","slug":"california-author-dishes-on-orange-county-%e2%80%98underdogs%e2%80%99-and-mexican-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/california-author-dishes-on-orange-county-%e2%80%98underdogs%e2%80%99-and-mexican-food\/","title":{"rendered":"California author dishes on Orange County, \u2018underdogs\u2019 and Mexican food"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gustavo Arellano at Alexander Book Co. in San Francisco discusses his books, "Ask a Mexican!" and "Orange County: A Personal History" which has just been released in paperback. Photo John Nu\u00f1o<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Monday, March 7, the energetic author and journalist Gustavo Arellano flew up for a short trip to San Francisco from Southern California. During his stay, he managed to do a book signing at Alexander Book Co., visit the historical archives at the main library, grab a burrito at La Taquer\u00eda and even squeeze in time to speak to El Tecolote about what he is up to here in the Mission District.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a lot to accomplish in a short amount of time but it\u2019s something Arellano \u2013 best known for his nationally syndicated column \u201c\u00a1Ask A Mexican!\u201d \u2013 has a knack for. At age 32 he has so far written two books, served as the managing editor the OC Weekly \u2013 Orange County\u2019s alternative newspaper \u2013 and lectured at California State University at Fullerton. He is a self-professed \u201cnerd\u201d that stays on the move.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though I do all these things, I\u2019m still busting my ass,\u201d Arellano said. \u201cI never stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2004, Arellano started writing \u201c\u00a1Ask A Mexican!\u201d \u2013 a \u201cDear Abby\u201d-like column, appearing locally in the SF Weekly \u2013 in which he answers readers\u2019 questions about Mexicans that range from honest cultural misconceptions to those that are unabashedly racist and offensive. But Arellano approaches them all the same way, using wit, satire and facts.<\/p>\n

The column was an instant success, moved quickly into national syndication and became the basis of his first book, \u00a1Ask A Mexican! Arellano has since found himself appearing as a guest on Comedy Central\u2019s \u201cThe Colbert Report\u201d and Fox News\u2019 \u201cHannity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aside from his column, Arellano\u2019s journalism covers the spectrum of goings-on in his native Orange County. Orange County\u2019s population is 34 percent Latino. The county is known for its beautiful beaches, glass mega-churches, planned communities and conservative politicians.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone once asked me who my core community is as a writer, and I said the people I write for are the downtrodden, for the underdog,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Indeed, one cause that Arellano has been a big supporter of is the DREAM Act, a bill giving undocumented college students and those serving in the U.S. military legal status and a chance for citizenship. Last December, however, it failed to receive the votes necessary to advance to the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DREAM Act is the easiest bill for America to pass,\u201d he said. \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be the only one. I\u2019m all for amnesty and all that good stuff, but the fact that the Republicans don\u2019t want to give amnesty to college students, that just shows how inherently racist they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean these college students are everything the know-nothings say we are not,\u201d said Arellano. \u201cThey say that we are not college students. Yes we are. They say we don\u2019t want to learn English. Yeah we do. They say we don\u2019t succeed. Yeah we do. I mean that is what the DREAM Act would do. It would grant amnesty to these students. To me it\u2019s a no-brainer and the only people who wouldn\u2019t vote for it have no brains \u2013 and that\u2019s the Republican Party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arellano calls it as he sees it, but that doesn\u2019t mean he will shy away from reporting on the bad deeds of Latinos as well. In a recent investigative piece, he reported a deeply disturbing article about the deadly medical malpractice carried out by a Latino gynecologist who preyed on immigrant women who had no other place to turn.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve gotten criticism from some people in Orange County, where you have corrupt Latino politicians,\u201d he said. \u201cI go after them. Some say you can\u2019t go after your own kind. No. It\u2019s because they are Latino and corrupt that I am going to go after them \u2013 even more so because they should know better. And to join in the corruption or to exploit your own community? How can you not go against those people?\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just these sorts of views that gain Arellano his loyal fans as well as fervent detractors, who leave hateful emails in his inbox, yet he remains undeterred. In fact, Arellano seems to take great pleasure in drawing open the Orange curtain for all to see. His second book, Orange County: A Personal History, which is partly a memoir, is also a historical survey highlighting the county\u2019s less savory past, all told with the humorous style that is the hallmark of his column.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love to do historical journalism,\u201d he said. \u201cI love taking these incidents that have happened in the past … that are not in the history books, and telling that history to a modern-day audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just what he has planned for his upcoming book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, to be published in May of 2012 by Scribner.<\/p>\n

Though he has written extensively about food for the OC Weekly, writing a book about Mexican food was not originally his idea. His agent suggested it after hearing Arellano\u2019s detailed descriptions of all the amazing food he ate in New York.<\/p>\n

While happy about the project, Arellano said he still had other interests outside the Mexican beat.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then I started researching and realized that no one has ever done a full-fledged history of Mexican food in the United States, which to me, shocked my mind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen the reporter in me thought, \u2018Here\u2019s a story. Go investigate all these different places, all these different trends and then you will be able to tell a great history.\u2019 And that it has to do with food was almost beside the point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Research has taken him all across the U.S. where he met with people and sampled Mexican food from Southern California to unexpected places like the state of Tennessee. It\u2019s not a diet he recommends, but he said he is certainly having a great time doing it.<\/p>\n

Besides promoting the Scribner paperback release of Orange County in the Bay Area, Arellano is also researching the famous Mission-style burrito for his new book. Searching through the San Francisco Chronicle\u2019s indexes, he noted there is little serious documentation regarding Mexican food. It\u2019s this lack of historical data, he said, that drives him.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though the Mission-style burrito is an icon, it doesn\u2019t have the allure of Chinatown or the hip-ness of a molecular gastronomy restaurant,\u201d he said. \u201cThe sad part is people just say, \u2018Oh its just Mexican food. Who cares about Mexican food?\u2019 Which is a damn shame because there is so much history involved in that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arellano, who has visited the Bay Area in the past and counts Taquer\u00eda El Castillito as a Mission favorite, said he would make more trips for Taco USA.<\/p>\n

Arellano interviewed Steve Ells, the founder of Chipotle Mexican Grill, who admits his popular restaurant chain is based on the Mission-style burrito. But when asked which restaurant was his model, Ells declined to answer.<\/p>\n

Which restaurant is it? It\u2019s not known but one has to assume that we will learn because Gustavo Arellano is on a mission in the Mission to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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