There’s one reason and one reason only for making flour tortillas at home: lard, my favorite four-letter word. Why else bother with all the rolling and flour dusting if it were not for the melt in ...

This story is a part of Texas Monthly’s Taco Week, a series dedicated to proving that Texas is the center of the taco universe. Aaron Escamilla remembers growing up around the family business, just as ...

A five-foot aluminum machine out of Blade Runner torches the air with a blue flame. That blue flame, powered by a propane tank, spins like a rickety lightbulb above a long steel plancha. The plancha ...

There are so many sizes and types of tortillas, some even made from cacti, but the two most commonly used kinds of tortillas are made from either corn or flour. When you think of the tortilla-making ...

Chef Jesus Saldivar feeds ground corn through the tortilla making machine at El Pujol Mill in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The shop is part of a new tortilla ...