<b>YES! </b> Fiesta week means El Mercado de la Guerra and El Mercado del Norte are dishing up the nosh — Barney recommends them.
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HOT EATS: Here’s my guide to Fiesta food, for these five days and nights a year when we go hog-wild, forgetting about vegan, veggie, healthy, natural, organic, soy, or any other variety of small-planet chow.

Look, it won’t kill you to take relish in warm and fuzzy pleasures of all kinds during Fiesta.

Have a midsummer love affair (but don’t cheat on anyone, of course). Stay out late dancing. Take your mother-in-law out for Mexican food (I did when Vivian was alive, bless her French soul).

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