Sounds like there’s an opportunity for a “local food” movement in Mexico. The Andean countries have seen a resurgence of interest in their wide variety of potatoes.
That would be a good thing-much better than the fast food crap that only encourages people to be fat. My mom and aunts taught all of us girls to make corn tortillas with masa harina from scratch by the time we were 10-11 years old-it is not as easy as you would think, either...
Flour tortillas were not made, bought or eaten in our homes. Those things made from white flour that most Anglos like are not real tortillas to me-no taste, no texture, just empty carbs with no nutritional value-I’d rather eat cooked cardboard...
I agree. They have great food in Mexico, and one of my favorite things is nice, fresh, warm, hand-made tortillas. I used to live near a tortilla factory in California, and you’d hear pat-pat-pat all day, interspersed with giggles and gossip, as the women sat there and made those wonderful tortillas.
Most tortillas are machine made now, so they’re stiff and of uniform thickness and just don’t have that magic!
She gets loaves of my sour-dough, I get a stack of flour and corn tortillas.
Everybody is happy.