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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.
Tortillas at center of argument, battery at Denny'sA Denny's customer was charged with battery and trespassing Saturday after not receiving his tortillas.
Tortilla: Mid Life Crisis?I don't know the life expectancy of a food product like the flour tortilla. What I do know is that, in the early 2000s, that poor bugger had a midlife crisis.
Mexico City, January 6th, 2009. While Mexican bakery giants Bimbo and Gruma sell their sweet breads and tortillas from Beijing to New York and from Melbourne to Madrid, Walmart is offering Rosca de Reyes, also known as the Mexican Epiphany holiday Kings Cake.
Potato and Rajas Tacos Recipe My husband and I love these tacos. We made them last night, and we used blue corn tortillas instead of regular, and poblano peppers instead of bell peppers. Here in Mexico poblanos are more commonly used than bell peppers, especially when a dish calls for "rajas".
UCSB fan: Throw tortillas when we scoreCal Poly and UCSB rivalry. It cost Poly the recent soccer game when Mustang fans threw bottles on the field. Now UCSB is ready for revenge.
This morning as I was making breakfast for my family I had a conversation with my husband as to how cooking traditions survive. My experience has been very diverse, and rich in that I was raised with my maternal grandmother.
Enjoying the Pleasures of the Panamanian Local FoodPanama 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.
How the rising price of corn made Mexicans take to streetsMexico 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.
INGREDIENTS: (serves about 16) 2 pounds ground beef 1 chopped onion 2 teaspoons chopped garlic 1 (4 ounce) can diced green chili peppers 1 (10 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chili peppers 1 (2 ounce) can black olives - sliced is good 1 (16 ounce) jar salsa - whatever heat …
Tortillas Like Mamá's, but This Is No Bodegalocal, authentic, and fresh food, what a concept :-) mmm, gives "burritos as big as your head" a whole new flavor!
A Culinary and Cultural Staple in Crisis 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.
Tortilla price rise worries MexicoMexican 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.
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