How This Iconic Arizona Kitchen and Its Fry Bread Taco Made Culinary History

Refried beans, spicy green chile strips, onions, sour cream, cheese, and lettuce all ride on one puffy round of golden fry bread. That stack is a vegetarian taco, and it might be the most famous meatless lunch in Arizona. The recipe behind the bread came from a Tohono O’odham mother and was passed down to her daughter. That daughter shared it with the public in 1992. Two decades later, a national food foundation came calling with an award no Native American restaurant had ever received bef