Guatemalan Indian Girls Grinding Maize In A Mill Editorial Photo

Guatemala, department Alto Verapaz, San Cristobal village: in the mountains around Coban is the main food of the Indian maize, of which they make tortillas. A maize tortilla is the staple food in the South American and Middle American cuisine. Before the maize can be processed to make the dough, it must first be soak in water and washed, and then be milled into flour. These girls enter the corn kernels in a cruncher.