A metate is a grinding stone common to Mesoamerican cultures, past and present. Corn and other grains are ground against the volcanic stone with another stone held in the hand called a manos. Metate ...

Inside the kitchen at Poca Madre, past the hotel pans full of grilled pineapple paddles and ducks confiting in their own fat, chef de cuisine Faiz Ally holds a pinkish-purple ball of ground corn ...

In 1975, 17-year-old Cesario “Chayo” Covarrubias left his town of Momax, Zacatecas to join his brothers in East Los Angeles. In Mexico, the Covarrubias family farmed corn, tobacco, and beans. But in ...