when did tortillas come into mexican culture?

Answer 1

I took an anthropology class in college it was It was in History of Mesoamerica. That is history of Latin America during the periods of the Olmecs, Aztecs and so on. They say that tortillas and food like Tamales have been around since then.

Answer 2

I don't know when they came in. There is evidence that people in mesoamerica were harvesting, grinding and eating corn as early as 3,000 B.C., but I don't think the beginning of the tortilla is documented. Here is the first European contact:

1519 - When Hernán Cortés (1485-1547), also known as Hernando Cortez, and his conquistadores arrived in the New World on April 22, 1519, they discovered that the inhabitants (Aztecs Mexicas) made flat corn breads. The native Nahuatl name for these was tlaxcalli. The Spanish gave them the name tortilla. In Cortés' 1920 second letter to King Charles V of Spain, he describes the public markets and the selling of maize or Indian corn:

Answer 3

Well I can tell you this much, I am Mexican but I've never questioned when. I'm not sure if it is an indigenous food or if it was brought by the Spaniards. My guess though would be that it is probably an indigenous food.

Answer 4

Well before Mexicans did. It was actually an indian food from before the time that europeans got here.

Yeah, indigenous, that's a nice word for it.

Answer 5

I read it but i don't remember the details clearly. It was long time ago in the aztec or one of the ancient civilizations.

Answer 6

when Taco Bell opened it's first restaurant in Tijuana.

just kidding.

Tortillas have been around since before the spanish arrived in Mexico.