>
> I've had, and loathed, the shoe-leather that gets passed off as
> store-bought "corn tortillas".
>

>
> So I bought a tortilla press and a comida[1] and a bag of masa harina
> (corn flour) and made corn tortillas. They look and feel like flour
> tortillas. But the smell while they cook and the taste when we eat
> them is waaaaay more gorgeous.
>
> Then the Northgate Gonzales Market opened down here, and I was able to
> buy "masa mix". It's supposed to be the stuff that abuela[2] mixes up
> and uses to make her corn tortillas. Yeah, right. But even so, the
> tortillas I made from it are noticeably nicer than the ones I used to
> make using masa harina.
>
> ...