jessevalenciana
Jesse Valenciana
jessevalenciana
Food & Beer writer born & raised in Chicago, living in Nashville, working in Louisville and always posting on IG, @jessevalenciana

This beats a McGriddle. (I really hope so or I’m doing something terribly wrong) Read more

HIgh fives, I love me some good mariscos when I’m hungover.  Read more

This isn’t holy pozole, this is just delicious pozole. So, drink what you like and eat delicious food! Read more

Yes, Hamms is scientifically proven to be the only beer that causes hangovers. Hence, why I came up with this cure. Read more

That’s two separate questions. Molé is sometimes made to go with chicken, but it doesn’t usually have chicken in it. Many recipes do call for a broth, you would have to ask the chef what kind of broth they used to see if it’s chicken broth or not. Read more

Is it served warm or cold? If it’s cold it might just be a tomatillo salsa. Read more

I hired Claudio for the Goose Island 313 Day event 4 years ago. Got to meet his wife and learned a lot about tamales from him. The guy is truly a tamale whisperer. His tamales are always the freshest, he refuses to sell tamales that weren’t made that day and donates the tamales he doesn’t sell the day they’re made to Read more

The form tamal is preferred by some to tamale, as tamal is the Standard Spanish singular form while tamale is generally analyzed as a back-formation from the plural tamales, thus proscribed.” Read more