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The tortilla is an essential part of Mexican and Central American cuisine that can now be found in almost every corner of the world. The versatile flatbread made from corn flour dough or masa harina ...
A taco is only as good as the tortilla used, and with so few ingredients needed to make homemade corn tortillas, there’s very little reason not to. Fresh tortillas are softer and more flavorful than ...
This story first appeared on Felicia Lee’s Open Salon blog. Tortillas are sacred in the Zapotec village of San Lucas Quiaviní, Oaxaca. Devotees worship them by ripping them into little pieces and ...
Mid St8 Taco Makes Fresh Corn Tortillas Mid St8 Taco showed us how they make their fresh corn tortillas using corn from a farm in Cumberland County. Mid St8 Taco has been serving up tacos in the West ...
Proficiency in Italian and counted cross-stitch are two things I thought I might learn during quarantine. I don’t know what happened to all those months, but I can’t speak Italian and I haven’t sewn ...
Back in the mid-1800s, tensions were mounting between the U.S. and Mexico. Contemporaneously, many Roman Catholic, Irish immigrants to the U.S. were experiencing discrimination in their mostly ...