There is nothing quite like a good tortilla. Unfortunately, almost no one in the U.S. has ever had a good, authentic tortilla—handmade, still warm from the comal it’s been cooked on, from landrace ...

This Portland tortilla shop hand-presses heirloom corn every morning, serving breakfast tacos that showcase ancient nixtamal ...

Maize, commonly known as corn, was first domesticated from a grass species called teosinte, almost 9,000 years ago. Humans were able to tame corn to grow large hearty stocks, but teosinte remained a ...

The traces of ancient corn farms could reveal how many people lived in a legendary Maya city, a new study suggests. The pyramid-filled Maya site of Tikal in Guatemala is one of the largest ...

Corn was domesticated from its ancestor teosinte in central Mexico beginning about 9,000 years ago by humans selectively breeding the wild plant, transforming its small, hard-shelled kernels into the ...

KEARNEY - Deb Echo-Hawk dreams of a day when she can eat her fill of Pawnee corn soup. Only then will she know the Pawnee Seeds Preservation Project has been successful. Only then will the Pawnee ...

LUGANO, TICINO, SWITZERLAND, July 19, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- In a new article, Stanislav Kondrashov goes into corn's intricate history and pervasive impact ...

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 ...

MADISON- Maps are tools to show you where you are going, but they can also show you where you came from. That principle drives the work of Roberto Rodríguez and Patrisia Gonzales, who study ancient ...