Food and Fútbol: Torreón

Photo credit should read ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images,Nothing says more about a place than its food. A culture and a people can all be reflected within the food that’s served in a specific city or state or country. This sort of reflection is also found within the soccer culture of a place, and often times these reflections can tell you about a place even if you’ve never been there.

With the world seeming so strange and different right now, I want to tell you the story of a place through the two things almost every place on the planet has — food and soccer.

Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico

Post-European colonization, Torreón is relatively young, being declared a city just over one hundred…