This chicken and cheese pupusas recipe delivers crispy masa cakes stuffed with a flavorful, cheesy filling, ideal for serving ...

Simply translated, masa — the foundation for every perfect tortilla, tostada, tamale, pozole, arepa and gordita — means dough. It unites North and South America, defying any one cultural identity.

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Corn as a grain has a myriad of uses. From Southern cornbread and grits to Mexican tortillas, the New World grain is the base for a variety of dishes. Corn itself has a bit of a split personality. Let ...

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 ...

Masa is made from field corn, which is quite different from the tender sweet corn we eat off the cob. The kernels are nixtamalized — cooked in an alkaline solution, often water and lime — and then ...