agua
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Standouts include the carnitas tacos and tamarind agua fresca at El Taco Torro, creative pies at Pizza Luna, house-smoked barbecue from Rollin Nolen’s BBQ, and Indian and Nepalese street food from Momo Dosa.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Some are lucky enough to make it back, but as the Spanish saying goes, “Tanto va el cántaro al agua hasta que se quiebra”: The pitcher goes to the well until it finally breaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2025
Live Más Café’s menu items include specialty drinks like Coffee and Churro Chillers, agua frescas, coffees and other cult-favorite foods.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024
In the days since, the grilled-meat stands and jugs of agua fresca have been replaced with protest signs.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2023
Most of the barrio’s women had put in some time dusting, washing the floors and walls, sprinkling agua florida all over, positioning wreaths, bathing Don Berto and laying him out in his box.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
They sell grilled meats, aguas frescas and dishes from their native lands in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025
All they do is sell aguas frescas: horchata, pineapple, mashed strawberries in chilled evaporated and condensed milk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2023
But if you’re at a Latin American taqueria, it’s probably that most ubiquitous of aguas frescas, agua de Jamaica, gleaming from a plastic drink dispenser on the edge of the counter.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
This grocery-restaurant has all kinds of appetizers, tacos, tostadas, tortas, cemitas including tongue and salted beef, cochinita, enchiladas, mole poblano, and aguas frescas and soft drinks.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2020
We stopped in Allende for some aguas frescas at a puesticito, but other than that, we stayed on the road.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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