Corn Tortillas

Informational Essay As with many families in America, my ethnic background is mixed. I am American and have family history from Western, Central Europe and well as Scandinavia, but I also have a Mexican American ethnicity too which originated from Mexico and South America back when my gr-gr-great grandparents were alive. Although, I don’t think about it often we have a tradition in our house of eating flour tortillas that has carried into my daily life. I consider it a Mexican tradition in nature; Although, because the tradition is so common in America eating tortillas has evolved into an American staple as well. First of all, Flour vs. Corn tortillas. Flour is an American twist to the original corn tortillas that are made in Mexico.
I haven’t necessarily picked up on these endeavors as I just use whatever utensil I need, but he grew up in a Mexican American family and this is what they did. Especially when eating Chorizo with Papas Con Huevos. As stated in the article from mexgrocer.com, “Among native Mexicans, tortillas are also commonly used as eating utensils. In the Old West, "cowpokes" realized the versatility of tortillas and used tortillas filled with meat or other foods as a convenient way to eat around the campfire.” Although half of my ancestry is Mexican in origin, our family is just a little more removed from traditions of my gr-gr-grandparents or both sides, but obviously this small tradition made an impression and it is something that has carried down through the
What makes us American is little bits of everything. Traditions may change, but there are roots in something that came from a people that respected what was provided for them in the region they came from. According to the article Tortilla and Taco History, “Sometime about 3000 B.C., people of the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico hybridized wild grasses to produce large, nutritious kernels we know as corn. Mexican anthropologist and maize historian Arturo Warman credits the development of corn with the rise of Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Mayans and the Aztecs, which were advanced in art, architecture, math, and astronomy. The significance of corn was not lost on indigenous cultures that viewed it as a foundation of humanity. It is revered as the seed of life. According to legend, human beings were made of corn by the