Campaign Notes | For 100 Percent Nixtamalized nonGMO Tortillas | Part One
Mujer de maiz. Guache La tortilla esta norteada Tenemos que voltear la tortilla The campaign for nixtamalized nonGMO tortillas: the political ecology and deep nutrition of our daily plate #PuroNixtamal Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | May 1, 2018 Like nearly every Mexican, I have been eating corn tortillas all my life. Or, at least as soon as I was able to chew on the crispy, slightly burned edges when I was a precocious 3 year-old. There is photo of me somewhere as an infant teething on a tortilla. I think all Mexicans must have such a photo or at least a memory of that primordial experience. I have also been thinking and writing about tortillas for a long time. Back in the 1980s-90s, when I was a professor at Colorado College (CC), I spent a good part of a decade teaching in the College’s “Mexico Program” based at the time in Guanajuato, Mexico. Between 1986 and 1996, I taught several times in the Mexico Program. During those many month-plus visits I witnessed first-hand the transf...