Wild Mushroom Tacos with Al Pastor Sauce

In his Historia de la comida en México, the first general history of Mexican gastronomy, Amando Farga described Mexican food as “the happy meeting between the indigenous clay pot and the Spanish copper cauldron. This ‘fusion of two great peoples’ [the Aztecs and the Spanish] had given rise to the ‘lineage of today’s Mexican cuisine.’” Tacos al pastor, “shepherd style,” are filled with spit-grilled meat, usually pork, a cooking method based on traditional Lebanese lamb shawarma but wi