The Importance of Tortillas!
From Hugo Villela, Regional Development Executive;
In the Mayan tradition the human being is made of corn, the corn is the basis of the life here in Mesoamerica, the region which used to be the Mayan territory (encompassing Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and northern Costa Rica).
In the Chiapas Mountains you can see many corn plantations, and that makes you understand that the base of the diet here is corn, to make tortillas, nachos, tamales, and other traditional dishes.
So it is important to realise how linked these people here are to the corn production, to mother Earth and to the environment. Corn here means life, well being, hope, tradition and hard work.
Since Christopher Columbus came here 500 years ago, Mesoamerica and the Peruvian Andeans, the regions where the corn comes from, have contributed to the daily food of all the world, (Maybe I have been eating too many tortillas in this last 10 days!)
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