Paula E. Morton
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For centuries tortillas have been a staple of the Mexican diet, but today it crosses cultures and borders as a part of an international network of people, customs, and culinary traditions. A history of the tortilla from its roots in ancient Mesoamerica to the cross-cultural global tortilla; from the Mexican woman rolling the mano over the metate to grind corn to the enormous wheat tortillas made in northern Mexico to creations like the stuffed burrito.......