President Felipe Calderon signed an accord with businesses on Thursday to curb soaring tortilla prices and protect Mexico's poor from speculative sellers and a surge in the cost of corn driven by the U.S. ethanol industry. The corn tortilla is the basic staple of the Mexican diet and is especially crucial for the poor. The accord limits tortilla prices to 8.50 pesos ($0.78) per kilogram and threatens to use existing laws to achieve prison sentences of up to 10 years for company officials found hoarding corn. Some stores have been selling tortillas for as much as 10 pesos ($0.91) per kilogram.
Mexico's economy secretary said he was confident tortilla prices, which have skyrocketed over the past year because of high international demand for corn, will stabilize in less than a month.
What's easier than making a sandwich? Making a tortilla veggie burger sandwich.
Panama is the best place where one an readily enjoy the pleasures of local food and it is all the more special because as the varieties are vast along with all the regions of the place.
Mexico was ablaze in late January. Just two months after the election of Felipe Calderon as Mexico's President, protests had broken out across the country.
When you need to bring a dish to pass, this one can fill the bill. It's sort of like a Mexican lasagna. Substitute fresh jalapenos for the green chili peppers for more heat.
local, authentic, and fresh food, what a concept :-) mmm, gives "burritos as big as your head" a whole new flavor!
Thick, doughy tortillas roll hot off the conveyor belt all day at Aurora Rosales's little shop in this congested city built on a dry lake bed east of Mexico City.
Mexican legislators, producers and consumers are battling with the government over how best to control the rising price of corn tortillas, a centuries-old staple of the Mexican diet.