Food & Wine USA - (12)December 2018

THE DOG OF LEGEND

A 2018 James Beard America’s

Classics Award went to a hot dog.

Specifically, El Guero Canelo’s

Sonoran Style. But it’s really a

lifetime achievement award for the

dog served in variations citywide,

especially along South 12th Avenue.

The essentials: a bacon-wrapped

beef hot dog smothered in green

chiles, onions, pinto beans and

tomatoes on a sweet Mexican bun.

Add a Mexican Coca-Cola for the

famous cane-sugar kick.

SWEETS

CHOCOLATE JEWELS

Talks with Adam Krantz of Monsoon

Chocolate quickly turn to analysis of

the citrusy leanings of Madagascar’s

cacao beans or the sneaky heat

chiltepin peppers add to chocolates.

That attention, along with artistry

like hand-painting chocolates with

an airbrush, makes browsing Adam’s

shop feel equally like choosing

wine and jewelry. He’s converted

a tortilla factory in South Tucson

into a lab for capturing the almost

unmatched flavor combinations

that chocolate allows. “It’s the most

complex flavor substance known to

man,” he says.

TUCSON

TASTES

CROSSROADS

OF CULTURAL

FLAVORS

Tucson’s Mission San Xavier del Bac,
completed in 1797, is Arizona’s oldest
European structure and continues to
operate as a house of worship.