Now this is a quick and dirty book review

OC Weekly editor Gustavo Arellano's new book, "Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America," was just praised by Publishers Weekly as one of the top cookbooks of the spring crop. That would be nicer for the author if it were a cookbook. "There's not one recipe in it," Arellano says. "The closest I come to offering a recipe is describing in purple prose the process of nixtamalization, and how to make a tortilla from fresh masa, but that's it. Not even my pinche quesadillas recipe made it in." Not that he's complaining.