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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...

Photo courtesy of  David Kamm Photoworks . GMO contamination of masa harina consumer products EATING BIOFUEL CORN IN YOUR NEXT TORTILLA? – A CALL TO ACTION! Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | April 14, 2017 In September 2000, Kraft, Inc. had to recall taco shells after admitting that they contained a genetically engineered corn that was not approved for human consumption. The case was a serious breach of biosafety and posed a significant health risk for persons with allergies to the proteins produced by the transgenic corn mistakenly added to the processed flour destined for the tortilla shells (see the original New York Times report). Now, we have a new incident involving the likely contamination of masa harina (cornmeal flour) by transgenic corn in what is supposed to be a GMO-free product used to make tamales and tortillas. According to a report posted to the Huffington Post , the transgenic corn (Enogen) may have been behind a mysterious incident in California involving bad masa ha...