This is your Daily Detroit for October 24, 2018 from the Podcast Detroit studios at the Detroit Shipping Company.

If you’re anything like us, then you’re a huge fan of PBS, and you also love food. And if you check both of those boxes, then you’re probably familiar with our guest on today’s podcast.

Pati Jinich https://patijinich.com/ is the host of the James Beard Award-winning, Emmy-nominated PBS television series “Pati’s Mexican Table,” which combines travel to explore the cuisine of her native Mexico and how-to guides of her cooking up delicious recipes. She’s also the author of two cookbooks — “Pati’s Mexican Table” from 2013 and “Mexican Today,” which came out in 2016.

Jinich tells Sven she is in Detroit all week as part of a series tracing the evolution of Mexican food in the United States. So far during her trip here, she’s sampled Detroit-style pizza at Buddy’s, pastries at Mexicantown Bakery, and she goes deep on Detroit Coneys, with a pretty nuanced take on comparing the competing offerings from Lafayette Coney Island and American Coney Island. She also says Mexican cuisine has never been as big — nor attracted as much interest — as it does now.

Your stories:

- A pair of Monday raids by the Detroit Police Department resulted in the seizure of nearly 80 pounds of drugs… with a street value estimated at nearly $17 million.

- A plot to steal Fiat Chrysler vehicles off of a factory storage lot (again) has failed.

- The City of Detroit continues to go crazy for scooters … this time in the neighborhoods. Hundreds more Lime and Bird scooters are coming.

- The city of Detroit has a new website. It has a cleaner look and officials say information is easier find with an enhanced search feature. We dive in.

- Two Michigan dive bars, including one in Detroit, made a list of the best dive bars in America.

- UFO Factory and Laika Dog are opening back up in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood this weekend after a long hiatus. We have the details.

- We tried the new -320 Coffee and Creamery

- And, today is the 20th anniversary of the implosion of the 32-story Hudson’s department store on Woodward in downtown Detroit.