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Corn Tortillas

Jeff Dwork <jeff@jeff-and-reggie.com>
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:58:26 -0700
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There's another reason you can't make good corn tortillas at home - 
you're using dried masa mix. High-end tortilla makers start with 
dried whole-kernel corn. The corn is cooked in vats to make masa 
which is used immediately to make tortillas. The machines in the 
little mom-and-pop tortillerias work the same way. One machine the 
size of a VW can process 300 lbs of corn per day.

_Translation Nation, Defining a New American Identity in the 
Spanish-speaking United States_ by Hector Tobar, ISBN 1-57322-305-0, 
page 160. Very interesting book.

Jeff