Benedicta Alejo Vargas kneels on the floor of a conference room in LoDo, plucking pieces of masa from a large, blue-gray mound of the stuff resting on her metate, the stone grinder she’s had since she ...

You can make tortillas Nicoyan style at home. All you need is lime-treated corn flour, which is called masa harina. Technique tip: Cool any unused tortilla to room temperature and store tightly ...

Tortillas are the foundation of a great taco. You can spend hours roasting or braising meats and building complex salsas, but if the tortilla is mediocre, the best you can hope for is a mediocre taco.

An ancient process has been making a comeback in the kitchens of some of Houston's most innovative restaurants. Bayou City chefs are reintroducing nixtamalization, a centuries-old method once used by ...

MADISON, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Tortillas are fundamental in Mexican and other Latin American cuisine, but behind that little corn tortilla is a rich history that a tortilla company in Madison has the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Corn tortillas glide steadily out of the oven at Yoli Tortilleria in the East Bottoms of Kansas City. Marissa and Mark Gencarelli said the company makes fresh tortillas every day, ...

Nico’s Tacos are changing the way we think about tacos, one nixtamal tortilla at a time. Nico’s Tacos, with locations in St. Paul’s St. Anthony Park neighborhood off Como Avenue and in Minneapolis’s ...

Mateo Herrera makes each tortilla with methodical care. The west El Paso restaurant where he works is closed on Mondays, so he has the kitchen to himself and his metal tray of bolitas—balls of masa ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. A new law legally mandating how corn tortillas can be made, despite a 12,000 year tradition ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 14—ROCHESTER — Wilber de la Rosa's vision for La Mayzteca, a new southeastern Rochester restaurant, starts with tortillas ...

Tacombi, one of NYC’s favorite taco chains, places so much importance on serving the perfect tortilla, that they opened up their own tortilla factory called Vista Hermosa, in Piscataway, New Jersey.