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    Good Food

    Cemitas

    Nancy Zaslavsky runs culinary tours to Mexico.  Cemitas is a type of sandwich from Puebla, Mexico.  It's served on a rich bread sprinkled with sesame seeds.  It's served with meat, avocado, cheese and the herb papalo .  Papalo can be found at Coleman farms at the Santa Monica Farmers Market.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Nancy Zaslavsky runs culinary tours to Mexico. Cemitas is a type of sandwich from Puebla, Mexico. It's served on a rich bread sprinkled with sesame seeds. It's served with meat, avocado, cheese and the herb papalo. Papalo can be found at Coleman farms at the Santa Monica Farmers Market. Nancy likes to make her cemitas with shredded Oaxacan cheese.

    Cemitas are sold all over Los Angeles:

    Pal Cabron

    2560 E Gage Ave., Huntington Park

    Elvirita Cemitas

    3010 East 1st Street, Los Angeles

    Cemitas Tepeaca Truck

    (various locations)

    Taqueria don Adrian

    14902 Victory Boulevard, Van Nuys

    The full episode

    5 of 9
    Water Rights; Little Arabia; Bocuse d'Or; Meat-free Meat
    1. 0:00Market Report
    2. 7:00Water Rights in California
    3. 14:00Little Arabia in Orange County
    4. 21:00Knives at Dawn
    5. 26:00CemitasYou’re reading this
    6. 31:00A Meat Obsession
    7. 38:00Offal-lot of Meat
    8. 44:00Meat-free Meat
    9. 50:00The French Fries of Los Angeles
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Jennifer Ferro

      Jennifer Ferro, President, KCRW, Los Angeles

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      Harriet Ells

      Program Director for Talk

      CultureFood & Drink

    The full episode

    5 of 9
    Water Rights; Little Arabia; Bocuse d'Or; Meat-free Meat
    1. 0:00Market Report
    2. 7:00Water Rights in California
    3. 14:00Little Arabia in Orange County
    4. 21:00Knives at Dawn
    5. 26:00CemitasYou’re reading this
    6. 31:00A Meat Obsession
    7. 38:00Offal-lot of Meat
    8. 44:00Meat-free Meat
    9. 50:00The French Fries of Los Angeles
    Back to Good Food