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The "phone eats first" trend is about cooking or ordering your food with an eye toward a visual presentation worth sharing on social media. Author Allyson Reedy has written a new cookbook, The Phone Eats First Cookbook: 50 of Social Media's Best Recipes to Feed Your Feed...and Then Yourself, all about the most viral recipes. Reedy discusses how Instagram and TikTok have changed our food culture and listeners share their favorite recipes that they first saw online. 

BIRRIA TACOS
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Serves 6
It was the Instagram post heard ’round the world in 2018, when an L.A. influencer posted a picture of his dinner from a neighborhood quesabirria taco truck. Almost instantly, influencers were scouring their own ’hoods for birria tacos, clamoring for that perfect shot of glistening, griddled tacos being dunked into Styrofoam cups full of dark pools of chile-infused goodness. Talk about gussying up #tacotuesday. Demand skyrocketed, with influencers piquing our interest for a dish that, prior to 2018, was barely known to most outside of Mexico. 

Birria tacos started popping up on Mexican restaurant menus across the country, and food bloggers began posting recipes for DIY tacos and 
Frankenfoods like birria ramen. This recipe slow simmers dried guajillo, ancho, and arbol chiles with garlic, onion, oregano, and cumin to out-birria the rest.

HASHTAG PAIRING: #birriatacos #tacotime #whenidipyoudip #tacoboutawesome #birriaiswhyimbroke

PHOTO TIP: With brownish foods like tacos, add pops of color with onion, cilantro, and lime 2 pounds boneless beef chuck roast

• 6 cloves garlic
• 5 dried guajillo chiles, stems and seeds removed
• 5 dried chiles de arbol, stems and seeds removed
• 4 dried ancho chiles, stems and seeds removed
• 4 bay leaves
• ½ medium white onion
• ½ carrot
• 1 tablespoon beef or chicken broth
• 1 tablespoon dried oregano
• 1 tablespoon ground cumin
• 1½ teaspoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 12 yellow corn tortillas
• 3 cups grated Chihuahua, Oaxaca, or Monterey Jack cheese
• Chopped white onion, chopped cilantro, and lime wedges for serving

1. In a large pot or Dutch oven, combine the beef, garlic, chiles,
   bay leaves, onion, carrot, and 6 cups of water. Bring to a boil over
   medium heat, then simmer for 30 minutes.
    
2. With a slotted spoon or skimmer, remove the garlic, chiles, bay
   leaves, onion, and carrot and place in a blender. Add about ½ cup
   of cooking liquid and puree. Add the broth, oregano, cumin, sugar,
   and salt and blend until thoroughly combined. Strain through a
   fine-mesh sieve back into the pot with the beef and the remaining
   cooking liquid.
    
3. Stir to combine, cover, and cook over low heat until the beef
   shreds with a fork, about 3 hours.
    
4. Transfer the beef to a cutting board, allow to cool slightly, and
   shred it with two forks.
    
5. To make the tacos, heat a cast-iron griddle or skillet over
   medium-low heat. Dip a corn tortilla halfway into the broth in the
   pot. Place on the griddle and top with ¼ cup cheese and about
   ½ cup shredded meat. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of broth to the
   griddle, fold the taco, and cook until the cheese melts and the meat
   sizzles. You can make several tacos at a time.
    
6. When ready to serve, ladle broth into small individual bowls for
   dipping and top the broth and the tacos with chopped onion and
   cilantro. Serve with lime halves on the side.

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