2006-12-18 03:18:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
When Spanish conquistadors landed on North America, they discovered the Mexica or Aztec Indians living in the area that we now call Mexico. Corn was a revered plant in Aztec society and was the staple of their diet. Sometimes the corn was eaten raw off the cob, boiled, roasted or made into corn meal. The most traditional way of eating corn was to mash the kernels into a dough to make tortillas. The Spanish brought with them grain and the flour tortillas was born.
2006-12-18 05:03:54 · answer #1 · answered by MB 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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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:
2006-12-18 03:20:13 · answer #2 · answered by braennvin2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the natives mwde them cuz they used alot of corn. I think The natives were the aztecs!
2006-12-18 03:22:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
spanish tortilla has not corn, only eggs and potatoes
2006-12-20 02:22:03 · answer #4 · answered by migue 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋