Tomorrow night May 6th) at Don Artemio in Fort Worth, you can learn to make a tortilla the way it has been made in Mexico for eight thousand years. That’s not a figure of speech. Corn has been cultivated in Mexico since roughly 6000 BCE, and nixtamalization — the alkaline cooking process that transforms dried corn into masa — is one of the oldest food technologies in human history. The Mayan creation story says the first humans were formed from ground corn by the gods. That’s the thing on your plate.
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