Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. Even if you haven’t eaten straight up nixtamal ...

How is hominy made? Learn the steps to make hominy corn from scratch using corn hominy and the tortilleria nixtamal process. Tortillas and tamales are made from whole kernels of dry grain corn that ...

Nico’s Tacos are changing the way we think about tacos, one nixtamal tortilla at a time. Nico’s Tacos, with locations in St. Paul’s St. Anthony Park neighborhood off Como Avenue and in Minneapolis’s ...

Benedicta Alejo Vargas kneels on the floor of a conference room in LoDo, plucking pieces of masa from a large, blue-gray mound of the stuff resting on her metate, the stone grinder she’s had since she ...

An ancient process has been making a comeback in the kitchens of some of Houston's most innovative restaurants. Bayou City chefs are reintroducing nixtamalization, a centuries-old method once used by ...

Australia, we’ve been doing tacos all wrong. Those white, wheat-based tortillas aren’t the real-deal and neither are corn chip-like casings. Ask any Mexican, and they’ll tell you: it’s all about ...