In this video, I share my experience in growing rainbow corn also known as gem, glass, and Aztec corn also give my thoughts ...
The harvest may be winding down, but the fruits reaped from a Latin-theme garden in the South Bay are providing its cultivators with abundant food for thought as well as for the table. Towering above ...
9. Centeotl: The Aztec Corn God Centeotl (sen·tay·ohtl) was the youthful Aztecmaize deity (or Aztec corn deity ), embodying sustenance and daily life. As maize was staple food for pre-hispanic ...
The ancient Aztecs mashing soaked corn kernels into a dough called masa and forming flat, round tortillas had no idea they were launching a $6 billion-plus a year industry in an unimagined republic to ...
I had given up on finding Cuitlacoche, a delicacy of the Aztecs that's been virtually untapped this far north. For those who don't know it, Cuitlacoche is corn smut: a mossy gray fungus that grows ...
As the price of corn tortillas tripled in 2007, thousands of Mexicans took to the streets in protest. Mujeres Artistas y el Maiz, or MAMAZ, a non-profit women's art collective in Oaxaca organized by ...