In Mexican culture the tortilla is an essential. Almost every dish includes tortillas as part of the dish or on the side. In “Tortillas” Jose Antonio Burciaga, the founder of Disenos Literarios, a publishing company in California, talks about some of his experience with tortillas and the impact they have on everyday life. Burciaga recalls his first memory of tortillas is his mother or mama telling him to not play with them. It isn’t uncommon to reference family with tortillas as most of the time tortilla making is something that is passed down from generation to generation. Burciaga writes, “For Mexicans over the centuries, the tortilla has served as the spoon and the fork, the plate and the napkin,” (507) in other words a tortilla was an everyday