The Lucky Taco Cookbook
  • Published: 4 July 2023
  • ISBN: 9781776950522
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $50.00
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The Lucky Taco Cookbook

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Spice up your weeknights with over sixty secret recipes from the award-winning Lucky Taco team.

The Lucky Taco food truck has been serving up fresh, authentic and delicious tacos to appreciative fans for 10 years. Now you can recreate their famous tacos, quesadillas and more at home, any night of the week.

In this vibrant new cookbook, Sarah and Otis Frizzell share the Lucky Taco story and over 60 secret recipes. As well as their tried and true classics, you’ll find one-off special editions, the famous Lucky Taco Pink Pickle, Chilli Lime Salt, hot sauces and more. Plus mouth-watering favourites from the Frizzell home kitchen, including Sticky Cider Ribs, The Lucky Burger, ‘R’ Rated Mac ‘n’ Cheese, delectable sweet treats and refreshing drinks.

Jazz up taco night with game-changing recipes and pick up hot tips from the dynamic duo, including the ultimate taco-eating stance, how to feed a crowd like a boss, and what to put on the menu for a
variety of fun fiestas.

Featuring striking photography and Otis’s funky illustrations, this colourful little hardcover will look just as good on your coffee table as on your cookbook shelf.
  • Published: 4 July 2023
  • ISBN: 9781776950522
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $50.00
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About the author

Sarah and Otis Frizzell

Sarah and Otis Frizzell are the dynamic duo behind The Lucky Taco. The pair fell in love with tacos and the iconic Californian taco trucks while traveling in Mexico and LA. The passionate cooks trained with one of the best chefs in Mexico and returned to establish one of Aotearoa’s very first gourmet food trucks. Since 2013 they have been treating Kiwis to tasty and authentic tacos from their truck, Lucky. Their product range is stocked at food retailers throughout Aotearoa. They have won over 30 awards, including Winner of the Lewisham Most Outstanding Street Food Award (2016, 2018, 2021), Supreme Champion at the Outstanding Food Producers NZ Awards, and World Champion at the World Hot Sauce Awards. Sarah hails from the UK and was an award-winning art director in Aotearoa’s top advertising agencies. Otis is a former hip-hop performer and tattoo artist. He has worked in TV and radio broadcasting, and is a well-known practising artist.

portrait photo of Sarah and Otis Frizzell

Awards & recognition

New Zealand Booklovers Awards

Shortlisted  •  2024  •  New Zealand Booklovers Award for Best Lifestyle Book

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This was originally called Crunchy Cauli. But one day, after Otis had written up the blackboard menu, a customer must have leaned up against it and smudged the ‘CR’ — so now it looked like ‘RA’. Nek minnit, a customer asked us what Raunchy Cauli was. And the name stuck.