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Pati's Mexican Table
How Do You Say Tucson?
Season 8
Episode 813
Pati travels to Tucson, Arizona, a city that claims to have the best 23 miles of Mexican food. She visits restaurants and meets local chefs, trying to get a deeper understanding of what Mexican food in America truly is. What happens to recipes when they travel across the border? How do different cultures connect and shape the food we eat? And what is this Sonoran hot dog everyone is raving about?
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