Eater NY has received the New York Press Membership’s 2022 award for Meals Writing for its reporting on the upward thrust of the flour tortilla in New York Town eating places.
In “Flour Tortillas In spite of everything Get Their Second in New York Town”, reporter Luke Fortney explored the original presence of flour tortillas within the town — which, till just lately, was once uncommon. NYC’s Mexican inhabitants hails in large part from the states of Puebla, Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Guanajuato, and the tortilla custom again house places a transparent emphasis on corn — no longer flour. However a brand new era of Mexican cooks is studying tips on how to make flour tortillas themselves, each converting the narrative round a 500-year previous custom that’s frequently seen as “inauthentic” via meals purists and plenty of Mexicans, and reintroducing pre-Hispanic tradition into the lexicon of what’s usually referred to as of late as Tex-Mex.
Eater NY has reported on the upward thrust of different Mexican meals developments and eating places within the town, such because the ever-popular birria taco scene; the rising center of attention on corn tortillas made with recent and heirloom masa; the acclaim for Tex-Mex; and eating places bringing less-frequently noticed components and techniques — just like the choricera discovered at Taqueria Ramirez in Greenpoint — to the town.
Robert Sietsema of Eater NY in the past received two New York Press Membership awards in the similar class, one for his private tale “In a Wheelchair and Hungry” in 2020 and for “Devouring St. Mark’s After Darkish: A Meals Move slowly Down the Crowded, Scrumptious Side road” in 2019.
