`Tortilla movement` seeks to restore Mexico`s iconic food
(WorldNews Mexico)

MEXICO CITY (AP) - As Mexico City`s 9 million residents sleep in the pre-dawn darkness, busy hands are already preparing the day`s corn tortillas in the small kitchen of Molino El Pujol, a tortilla shop that is part of a famed chef`s bid to help recover Mexico`s iconic food. As the old tortilla machine roars to life at 5 a.m., a steaming hot mass of lime-treated corn mash is loaded into one end, where it is divided into small portions, flattened and baked. Fresh tortillas come out the other end, letting customers taste a bit of Mexican history that chefs say is being eroded by modern production techniques and modern corns. If the `Pujol` in the shop`s name sounds familiar, it`s because its...