MADISON, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Tortillas are fundamental in Mexican and other Latin American cuisine, but behind that little corn tortilla is a rich history that a tortilla company in Madison has the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lines of corn tortilla chips and tortillas flow with systematic purpose at Raquelitas Tortillas factory in Denver’s River North Art District. Once the chips ...

When you bite into a taco, huarache, or a fresh corn tortilla, you’re tasting the results of an ancient chemical process called nixtamalization and dates back to 1500 BCE. The science podcast ...

Nixtamalization is a traditional process in which corn is cooked in an alkaline solution, typically calcium hydroxide, to induce substantial physical and chemical transformations. This treatment not ...

In a former 16th-century stable in northern Germany, in a village of a few hundred people, freshly harvested, organic, local corn is prepared for nixtamalization, the traditional Mexican method of ...

Maize is one of the most widely grown grains in the world. The way that much of it is processed has contributed to making millions of people sick over the past 500 years. Dr. Bill Schindler talks ...

Food Security and Nutrition is one of the Kenya government’s big four development agenda stipulated to create jobs and enable Kenyans meet their basic needs. To help attain this agenda, the Federal ...