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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lines of corn tortilla chips and tortillas flow with systematic purpose at Raquelitas Tortillas factory in Denver’s River North Art District. Once the chips ...

Nixtamalization is a traditional process in which corn is cooked in an alkaline solution, typically calcium hydroxide, to induce substantial physical and chemical transformations. This treatment not ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a former 16th-century stable in northern Germany, in a village of a few hundred people, freshly harvested, organic, local corn is prepared for nixtamalization, the traditional Mexican method of ...

This article may contain affiliate links that Yahoo and/or the publisher may receive a commission from if you buy a product or service through those links. Traditionally pozole can be made with the ...

Raymundo Escamilla isn’t interested in taking shortcuts. When we meet outside his tortilla factory on San Antonio’s West Side in February, Escamilla, 62, is dressed in a striped button-down shirt, ...

Reviewing Abasolo, a Mexican whisky made from 100% ancient corn using nixtamalization, a process also used for tortillas.