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

The huarache, stuffed with a microscopic layer of refried beans, deservedly brings up the rear: The oblong length of fried flatbread was too flaccid to provide much support to its poor toppings.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2016

Is Faith & Flower redeemed by the charred, crisp carnitas pizza, whose tart salsa verde really does make the pizza seem like an antojitos platform in the school of the huarache?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2014

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

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

Freshness is key to a molcajete, says Mirna Montero-Alvarado, co-founder of Taqueria Habanero, the family-run business that in 2014 made 14th Street NW a destination for true Mexican tacos, sopes and huaraches.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2019

I slip on my man huaraches and walk out into the warm night.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett