Oct. 7 is not just a regular Taco Tuesday – it's National Taco Day!

The National Day Calendar refers to this glorious day -- celebrated on the first Tuesday of October -- as one to “honor the endlessly versatile and delicious taco.”

The origins of the taco itself are not entirely clear. It is known as a Mexican dish – that much has been established – but whether people enjoyed them before the Europeans arrived or started eating them in the late 18th century remains up for debate. Some point to evidence that indigenous people in the lake region of the Valley of Mexico ate them, while others cite literary works from the mid-1800s that first mention the word “taco.”

For instance, a Mexican cookbook from the late 1830s, described as the only Mexican cookbook published before 1896 which clai

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