But, if you've ever found yourself craving hard taco shells and have none available, your toaster can save the day with a nifty hack. While you could heat a pan with oil and crisp up tortillas ...

Michelle Groskopf for The New York Times Taco Fiesta in Highland Park continues a long tradition of hard-shell tacos in Southern California.

Grocery store aisles are often a place of great deliberation: Dark or milk chocolate chips, white or brown rice, hard or soft taco shells. If you're often caught up on the last one, we get you.

Joe Avella: Taco Bell. We're talking tacos. At the US Taco Bell, you can get an individual hard-shell taco, or you can get three with a drink. I went with medium. Or you can get a party pack ...