!["Las Tortilleras": women making tortillas through nixtamilization, early 19th century Mexico. Hand-colored lithograph. Carl Nebel [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://hiddenhistoryofbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Tortilleras_Nebel.jpg)
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Join Emily, Meredith, and Frank as they discuss nixtamilization of corn, the Kentucky long rifle, the Inca Road system, the ancient North American city of Cahokia near modern St. Louis, and how biases in favor of modern technology can actually reverse innovation.
![Cahokia in 2010, taken from the Monk's Mound looking toward St. Louis : by Caroline (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://hiddenhistoryofbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Cahokia_in_2010-1-150x150.jpg)
!["Las Tortilleras": women making tortillas through nixtamilization, early 19th century Mexico. Hand-colored lithograph. Carl Nebel [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://hiddenhistoryofbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Tortilleras_Nebel-150x150.jpg)
![Inca Trail at Phuyupatamarka by Steve Pastor at English Wikipedia [CC BY 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons](http://hiddenhistoryofbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Inca_Trail_Phuyupatamarka-150x150.jpg)
Links and Additional Materials:
The American Plate: A Culinary History in 100 Bites
ISBN-10: 1492609862
ISBN-13: 978-1492609865
The Inca Road System via History of Information
How the Pyramids were Built via How Stuff Works
A Short History of the Kentucky Long Rifle by Dallas Bogan
America’s Forgotton City (Cahokia) via National Geographic
Cahokia: A Pre-Columbian American City by Timothy R. Pauketat, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Culinary Institute of America Chef Instructor Iliana de la Vega demonstrates the traditional Mexican method of nixtamalization, making masa for corn tortillas: