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Oaxaca grills world's largest tortilla
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May 10, 2000 |
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Tortillas, in case you've been deprived of the experience, have been around since pre-Columbian days and are the staple of the Mexican diet. The pancake-shaped bread is made out of corn and sometimes wheat (and, in California, often spinach and wheat or tomato and wheat). When they're fresh off the grill, they're especially tasty. Oaxaca's celebratory tortilla was of the traditional corn variety, though of course its size was anything but ordinary. When finished, it measured a whopping 14-and-a-half-feet in diameter. The city's notaries carefully recorded its size before it was topped with 70 pounds of cheese, 70 pounds of beef, 45 pounds of beans and 5 gallons of salsa. Delicioso!
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