Guatemala: Haciendo tortillas (video clip)

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Doña Mati and Doña Anamaria fixing lunch today in Doña Anamaria's lovely home. If there were Iron Chef competitions in Guatemala, they'd shred the competitors like cheese. Doña Mati's tortillas are the stuff my food-dreams are made of. This flavor does not exist outside of Guatemala, and this flavor alone is reason to return. True soul food. When she finished making this stack, she tucked them in to a straw basket. I pulled the little cotton blanket aside and huffed the corn fumes, like sniffing glue.

We had lomito and frijoles volteados, too, and some killer-hot chiletepin. Where: Antigua, Sacatepequez, Guatemala (lat: 14.567 lon: -90.733 alt: 1601 m)