The Carlist War period (a series of civil wars in Spain) in the mid-1800s brought two more stories of the history of the tortilla española. The first is that a Basque general during the siege of Bilbao invented the dish himself in order to quickly feed his troops. The second story c...
Hedy made over 18 films from 1940-1949 and her filmography includes: Boom Town, Comrade X, White Cargo, Tortilla Flat, Dishonored Lady, and Ziegfeld Girl. Hedy’s roles tended to involve her looking gorgeous and sensual and saying little, which she found boring. That boredom inspired her to...
In the Diccionario del Español de México (Dictionary of Spanish of Mexico), published by the College of Mexico, we can read that a quesadilla is a “tortilla of corn or wheat flour folded in half, stuffed with various foods such as cheese, potatoes, mushrooms, picadillo, chicharrón, squ...
Americans today consume about 1.85 billion pounds of potato chips annually, or around 6.6 pounds per person. The U.S. potato chip market—just potato chips, never mind tortilla chips or cheese puffs or pretzels—is estimated at $10.5 billion. And while chips and other starchy indulgences have ...
Pretzels have been a fan favorite salty snack that goes back centuries. The origin of pretzels is a little bit of a mystery, but there are few really
Thermal and unroofing history of a thick, tilted Basin-and-Range crustal section in the Tortilla Mountains, Arizona We estimate here a geothermal gradient of only 17 ± 5°C km−1 for the tilted Grayback fault block in southeastern Arizona when extension began ∼25 M... KA Howard,DA Fo...
From our humble beginnings as a small tortilla factory in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles to becoming a global brand recognized worldwide, we’ve always strived to help you explore the endless possibilities of tortillas and tortilla chips. Mission Foods US Around The Globe 1949 GRUMA was...
Explains the food history of Texas Mexican cuisine and explains why it is not TexMex food. Native American Recipes for Chili, tamales, refried beans.
The town of Chapala, on the shores of Lake Chapala—Mexico’s largest natural lake—played an important role in the history of tourism in North America and has become one of the world’s premier retirement destinations. Yet, the details of how and why this transformation occurred have never ...
“He had one blanket for his bed, but no mattress. On his desk were his Bible, his prayer book, a candle, a quill pen, and an ink bottle. He wrote, ‘While we have health, a tortilla and herbs of he field, what more could we desire?'” ...