Tortilla

A staple of Mexican and Central American cuisine, a tortilla is a kind of unleavened bread, made from maize, corn or wheat flour. The unrelated Spanish tortilla is a type of omelette.

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The traditional tortilla has been made of corn or maize since Pre-Columbian times. It is made by curing maize in lime water, grinding and pre-cooking it, kneading it into a dough called masa nixtamalera, pressing it flat into thin patties, and cooking it on a very hot comal (a type of light sheet-metal griddle).

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Central America: Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. Some geographers classify Central America as a large isthmus, and in this geographic sense it sometimes includes the portion of Mexico east of the Isth...

Cuisine: A cuisine (from French cuisine, meaning "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; itself from Latin coquina, meaning the same; itself from the Latin verb coquere, meaning "to cook") is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a place of origin. Religious food laws can also e...

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Tortilla Flat (Remastered)

Tortilla Flat Spencer Tracy John Garfield Hedy Lamarr 1942