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 ...

Learn how to nixtamalize corn, nixtamalization history, and why this process creates more nutrition for us to absorb. In fall of 2023, when Marissa Ames, former editor-in-chief of MOTHER EARTH NEWS, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a concentration seemingly akin to devotion, María Guadalupe Andrade's hands plunge into the boiled black corn, pushing it into the jaws of two volcanic stones in the mill. The mill will turn the ...