Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Enchilada
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==History== Enchiladas originated in Mexico, where the practice of rolling tortillas around other food dates back at least to [[Aztec civilization|Aztec]] times.<ref name="zeldes">{{cite web |last=Zeldes |first=Leah A. |title=Eat this! Enchiladas, Mexican comfort food |work=Dining Chicago |publisher=Chicago's Restaurant & Entertainment Guide, Inc. |date=10 November 2010 |url=http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2010/11/10/eat-this-enchiladas-mexican-comfort-food/ |access-date=18 May 2011 |archive-date=9 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409103456/http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2010/11/10/eat-this-enchiladas-mexican-comfort-food/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The people living in the lake region of the [[Valley of Mexico]] traditionally ate corn tortillas folded or rolled around small fish. Writing at the time of the Spanish conquistadors, [[Bernal Díaz del Castillo]] documented a feast enjoyed by Europeans hosted by [[Hernán Cortés]] in [[Coyoacán]], which included foods served in corn tortillas. (Note that the native [[Nahuatl]] name for the flat corn bread used was ''tlaxcalli''; the Spanish gave it the name ''tortilla''.)<ref name="HistoryA">{{cite web|url=http://food.oregonstate.edu/ref/culture/mexico_smith.html |title=Tacos, Enchilidas and Refried Beans: The Invention of Mexican-American Cookery |access-date=14 July 2008 |publisher=Oregon State University |work=Mexican References Food And Culture |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070718154326/http://food.oregonstate.edu/ref/culture/mexico_smith.html |archive-date=18 July 2007 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}</ref><ref name="History">{{cite web |url=http://www.iccjournal.biz/StudentScholars/Undergraduate/history_of_mexican_cuisine.htm |title=History of Mexican Cuisine |access-date=9 July 2008 |first=Margaret |last=Parker |date=12 October 2006 |work=Inner City Conservative Journal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017034655/http://www.iccjournal.biz/StudentScholars/Undergraduate/history_of_mexican_cuisine.htm |archive-date=2008-10-17 |url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref name="History2">{{cite web |url=http://www.mexicanmercados.com/food/foodhist.htm |title=A Thumbnail History of Mexican Food |access-date=9 July 2008 |first=Jim |last=Conrad |website=Mercados: Traditional Mexican Markets (blog) |date=<!--undated--> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705092347/http://www.mexicanmercados.com/food/foodhist.htm |archive-date=2008-07-05 |url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref name="History3">{{cite web |url=http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Tortilla_Taco_history.htm |title=History of Tortillas & Tacos |access-date=14 July 2008 |first=Linda |last=Stradley |publisher=What's Cooking America (blog) |date=<!--undated--> |archive-date=5 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705091928/http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Tortilla_Taco_history.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Nahuatl]] word for enchilada is ''chīllapītzalli'' {{IPA|nah|t͡ʃiːlːapiːˈt͡salːi|}}, which is formed of the Nahuatl word for "chili", ''chīlli'' {{IPA|nah|ˈt͡ʃiːlːi|}} and the Nahuatl word for "flute", ''[[tlapītzalli]]'' {{IPA|nah|t͡ɬapiːˈt͡salːi|}}.<ref>{{cite book |last=Karttunen |first=F. |year=1983 |title=An analytical dictionary of Nahuatl |publisher=University of Texas Press |page=52 |isbn=0-8061-2421-0}}</ref> In the 19th century, as Mexican cuisine was being memorialized, enchiladas were mentioned in the first Mexican cookbook, ''El cocinero mexicano'' (''"The Mexican Chef"''), published in 1831,<ref name="zeldes"/> and in Mariano Galvan Rivera's ''Diccionario de Cocina'', published in 1845.<ref name="HistoryA"/><ref name="TacoInvention">{{cite journal |last=Pilcher |first=Jeffrey |date=Winter 2008 |title=Was the Taco Invented in Southern California? |journal=[[Gastronomica]] |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=26–38 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |location=[[Berkeley, California]] |doi=10.1525/gfc.2008.8.1.26}}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Enchilada
(section)
Add topic