Food brings this family together, but one particular recipe reminds them of home

Food has been at the center of Teddy and Alexis Vejar’s lives since they were kids. They remember walking around their neighborhood in Morelia, Michoacán, where people would open up their driveways or garages and serve dinner out of their homes. When they moved to Chicago in the early 2000s, their dad — who they call “the original Mexican foodie” — still searched far and wide for the best food he could find. “We would literally drive from Chicago all the way to Oaxaca, and my dad would say,…