Hard Choices: Tortillas de Maiz or Tortillas de Maseca
The NY Times today had an article on (finally) a place in New York that is making tortillas from maize not from Maseca. If that sounds like double dutch to…
Read moreHow to grind maize for tortillas on a metate (simple grindstone)
My comrade-in-culinary-arms, Ken Albala asked for hints on grinding maize for tortillas on a metate. First, for those of you who don’t know what a tortilla is, it is the…
Read moreThings that caught my eye
Even at its outset, tipping engendered feelings of anxiety and resentment. In the mid-1800s, after leaving the Bell Inn of Gloucester, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle complained: “The dirty scrub…
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