huarache

Content creator Vivian Fabiola pointed out that while the shoe is labeled “Oaxaca,” its huarache design appears to be more closely tied to the state of Michoacán.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

That and the huarache — a thick, oblong masa cake topped with carnitas, crema and queso fresco — are two of the items not normally offered on Gracia’s to-go menu.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

Try the huarache azteca, furnished with thin, salty scraps of cecina, grilled onions, nopales, avocado and a drizzle of fresh salsa verde.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2019

My preferred carriers are fresher: the griddled gordita, with its crispy shell popped open like the hood of a Dodge, and the griddled huarache, its masa base simultaneously crusty and soft as polenta.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2015

On a hot September morning, I wake up in my childhood bed, slip on the huarache shoes my brother, Carlton, brought me back from Mexico.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

The Oaxaca Slip-On was inspired by traditional leather sandals known as huaraches made by Indigenous artisans in Mexico.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2025

When Chicano fashion designer Willy Chavarría first devised his latest shoe drop — a chunky sneaker topped with the sleek, black leather weave of artisanal Mexican huaraches — he meant to honor his roots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

The same masa serves as the base for a number of pockets and cakes, whether huaraches or gorditas, corn-flour foundations that are typically fried before being stuffed or topped with your preferred proteins and vegetables.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022

Vazquez, in a Natalia Lafourcade T-shirt and jeans, red lipstick and multicolored huaraches, struggled to remember the Spanish word for “fainted.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2020

The deep cracks in the back of his heels were as black as the soles of his huaraches.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez