{"id":312018,"date":"2026-08-02T17:38:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312018\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:38:47","slug":"chef-jose-contreras-highlights-tucsons-culinary-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312018\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Jos\u00e9 Contreras highlights Tucson\u2019s culinary heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Masa and Mar&#8217; menu<\/p>\n<p>The five-course James Beard Foundation \u201cMasa and Mar: Foods fromthe Mexican Pacific\u201d features two dishes from each of the chefs, Tucon\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Contreras and Alam M\u00e9ndez from Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Bluefin Tuna Tostada by Contreras: Corn tostada, bluefin tuna, avocado rajas, roasted chiltep\u00edn mayonnaise, lime, sea salt, green chile oil.<\/p>\n<p>Manglar by Mendez: Blue crab tamal, mussels, coastal greens, salsa de chicatana.<\/p>\n<p>Sonoran Flour Tortilla from Contreras: Handmade Sonoran flour tortilla, lightly seared scallop, brown butter infused with squid ink, lim\u00f3n real emulsion, chiltep\u00edn oil.<\/p>\n<p>Beef Tongue Tlacoyo from Mendez: Alberj\u00f3n, hoja santa, Oaxacan capers mole, purslane.<\/p>\n<p>Corn &amp; Wheat, collaborative course: Coconut nicuatole, Sonoran wheat pinole ice cream, dark chocolate cr\u00e9meux, fermented pineapple, green mango.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Masa and Mar&#8217; menu The five-course James Beard Foundation \u201cMasa and Mar: Foods fromthe Mexican Pacific\u201d features two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[117970,117969,75,84,83,9,24,63,11711],"class_list":["post-312018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-amelia","tag-jose-contreras","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-tucson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}