tortillera

The same thing happened another Christmas season when I was taking pictures at a tortillera for my Tortillas webpage.

'tis the Season 2006

Somehow the word spread through the barrio that Santa was at the tortillera, and soon the place was full of kids.

'tis the Season 2006

We like to watch the young tortillera pull off a piece of dough from the blue mass under a checkered plastic tablecloth and put it between flimsy plastic sheets into her silvery press where she flattens it out in an instant.

Take me out to the tianguis 2001

We like to watch the young tortillera pull off a piece of dough from the blue mass under a checkered plastic tablecloth and put it between flimsy plastic sheets into her silvery press where she flattens it out in an instant.

Take me out to the tianguis 2001

These operations, which required no ordinary adroitness, were performed by Rosita with a skill that showed she was a practised "tortillera."

The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850

The tortillera, kneeling by her metate, bruises the boiled maize, claps it into thin flakes, flings it on the heated stone, and then cries, "Tortillas! tortillas calientes!"

The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

I send you, by the Mexican commissioners, who are kind enough to take charge of a box for me, the figure of a Mexican tortillera, by which you may judge a little of the perfection in which the commonest lépero here works in wax.

Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

I send you, by the Mexican commissioners, who are kind enough to take charge of a box for me, the figure of a Mexican _tortillera_, by which you may judge a little of the perfection in which the commonest _lépero_ here works in wax.

Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843

Payan's current tortillera, Maria Dominquez-Doña Mari, as her coworkers call her-responded to a help wanted sign he taped to the front door four years ago.

Chicago Reader 2010

Payan's current tortillera, Maria Dominquez-Doña Mari, as her coworkers call her-responded to a help wanted sign he taped to the front door four years ago.

Chicago Reader 2010