Abstract

CALLEJA PINEDO, Margarita  and  VALENZUELA, María Basilia. La tortilla como identidad culinaria y producto de consumo global. Región y sociedad [online]. 2016, vol.28, n.66, pp.161-194. ISSN 2448-4849.

The tortilla is part of the culinary identity of Mexicans, whether they live in the country or abroad. The tortilla, is the basic ingredient of Mexican' snacks, it is served along with the festive dishes, and it is a customary companion at the Mexican's eating table. Since times, Spanish, Indian and Mexican produced in the old north of Mexico a regional culinary culture known now a day as tex-mex, which has been recreated by the constant waves of Mexican immigrants. Nevertheless, in Mexico Tex-Mex food was rejected, but in the United States and the global imagination is recognized as Mexican, where the tortilla either of corn or flour wheat is an identifier. As innovations in the fast food increases, the tortilla has become an edible object for global consumption uprooted the culinary heritage that gave it birth; such is the case of tortillas in Shanghai, China analyzed here.

Keywords : tortillas; Tex-Mex food; culinary identity; food globalization; wraps; tortilla chips.