Eddie de la Torre's store is Carnitas Uruapan in Boyle Heights. He provides the fresh masa for his brother's delicious tortillas at Guisado's, a taquería next door. He details what goes into the ...

Masa is made from field corn, which is quite different from the tender sweet corn we eat off the cob. The kernels are nixtamalized — cooked in an alkaline solution, often water and lime — and then ...

If you’ve long dreamt of making tamales to celebrate the holidays, but didn’t know how or where to start, this is the moment. Honestly, in the past you might have wondered whether the big production ...