Magdalena's Traditional Tortillas
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Film makers Lauren Waits and Dara Stillman created this documentary about the ancient practice of preparing maize and then making tortillas by hand. The video features Magdalena Martinez Bautista of Teotitlan del Valle speaking in Zapotec. Produced during Oaxaca Film Making Workshop: Visual Storytelling 2010. Instructors: Jim Haverkamp and Erica Rothman. Executive Producer: Norma Hawthorne, Oaxaca Cultural Navigator LLC
While her children are out getting an "education", the wisdom and knowledge that this woman's method infinitely improves the nutritional value of corn products is lost on the current generation. Modern "masa" sold in stores that her children eat is nothing of the kind. We will die out just like the old southerners who thought their way of making corn was "better".
Thanks for your comments everyone, and I'm sorry I haven't been attending to regularly reading and approving them. Though all are sincerely appreciated!
This video made me cry to see that I never got to see such beautiful tradition. Thank you
My great grandmother said the same thing about her children leaving the agrarian lifestyle to get an education and a career. Only now do we realize that this was the beginning of the end. Please encourage her children to never allow themselves to forget the old ways. We in America have done so, and now that our economy is on it's way down we're scrambling to relearn something we never should have forgotten. She is a blessing on her family. Thank you for sharing her. :-)
It's now October 2011 and Magda is still making her tortillas by hand. Sadly, she is aging and it is difficult to know how much longer she will be able to continue this extraordinary and delicious tradition! Thanks to all of you for your supportive comments.
This winter while I was in Teotitlan del Valle, Magdalena made blue corn tortillas from organic maize grown on the outskirts of the village. It was a joy and delight to watch her form the blue gray tortillas with her hands, pat pat pat, and then toast them on the comal, carefully turning them using her thumb and forefinger. Yes, it is a dyeing art. Thank you all for your appreciations.
beautiful video.reminded me of my mother back in india. thanks alot !
senora hermosa... su carita muestra tanta dulsura y trabajo
I bought my dad organic corn to grow and the corn grew beautifully. I want to make tortilla the traditional way and preserve the corn diversity and traditions. Working on building my own ecocina to cook them on. Thank you for the wonderful video. I grow green corn next year.
There's still a lot of campesinos who make their tortillas by hand from scratch out in the countryside where there's no town with a molino or tortilleria or cash economy.
Reminds me if my grandma:) she used to do tortillas by hand, and everytime I was near her the first tortilla she made, she would give it to me rolled up like a taquito with a little bit of salt, man! that was delicious!!
Good thing there's still people who makes tortillas the old way, but it's a shame that now almost all of Mexico's corn has been genetically modified, blame the government for it!!!
Good video!
I really enjoyed the video, what an experience you must have had meeting such a kind wise elder. I too think its sad the younger family are using modern ways, buying masa already made but what an honor to have met this grandma.
muy bueno
Great photography and story line. Theory put to practice and successfully! I see more of the hand made tortillas going away for the press to take it's place. Sad but practical
Great video.. really nice to see/experence a little slower lifestyle.. I too make my tortillas with store bought...
Wonderful little documentary. I'd love to see her show us the old way, with the metate and just her hands to flatten them. She's probably in the last generation of people who know how.
Bello video. Ese idioma se oye tambien muy bonito. Muy especial este video, me emociono mucho. Gracias.
Mara, thanks so much for watching and commenting. Mil gracias.
Allen, a wise and thoughtful observation. Thank you.
She makes me miss my grandmother!!
What a beautiful place she has :)
What a majic lady
wonderful
I'm not a linguist, but I would dare to say that among Oaxacan Indegineous languages, Zapotec would be kind of a sweet language. There are many dialects or branches of Zapotec now, but pretty much with the same root words or sounds. I love the serenity in her voice. Thanks again for such a good video.