His first book, “Trejo’s Tacos: Recipes and Stories from L.A.,” published in 2020, featured dishes from his restaurants, while his new one, “Trejo’s Cantina,” is built around the “foundational elements of Los Angeles Mexican culinary culture” with recipes for agua frescas, tacos, tostadas, and empanadas that he describes as “fun and easy food with big, bold flavors.”
Get the recipe: Shrimp Tostadas With Avocado and Lime Crema
It also includes a generous helping of inspiration. Think you can’t do something? Trejo, 79, is here to say: “You got this. ” His remarkable life story bears out that determination. It has been well chronicled through interviews and in the 2020 film “Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo.” (Because of his busy schedule, we were unable to connect, so I listened to a half-dozen interviews he has given and re-watched the film about his life.) A heroin user by the time he was 12, Trejo was convicted of armed robbery and spent much of the 1960s in California prisons, where he took up boxing and, eventually, got sober.
His foray into acting
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