Jesús Israel Delgado, owner of La Malinche tortillería, recently opened in the Sunset Park sector of Brooklyn, assures that the aroma is the richest. He says that when you smell a freshly made tortilla, it is very different from a cold tortilla, which does not get any aroma.
It is seven thirty in the morning and Jesus Delgado opens the metal curtains of this business that was inaugurated only on Saturday. He turns on the ovens of this machine and begins the production of a very typical product of Mexico and other Latin American countries: the tortilla.
“To bring a little piece of Mexico here, to bring a little bit of our culture as it is something essential in a Hispanic, the tortilla is the most essential,” says Delgado
Despite the fact that Sunset Park has registered a large concentration of Mexican immigrants for several years, this is the first tortilleria established in South Brooklyn, precisely on the most Mexican street in the county, Fifth Avenue.
And it is that in Mexico people do not usually buy refrigerated tortillas for days inside warehouses, but they take them hot, fresh from the machine.
The owner indicates that when customers arrive they say that they already feel like in Mexico because they had never tried this anywhere but in Mexico.
They say that on the Saturday they opened a line was registered that went around the block. And it is that a day they have to make 1,200 pounds of dough, and that now they only have customers from the neighborhood.
“The success was so much that we did not expect it, we did not really expect it … But even the weritos Americans come, they like it, they come for their, give me a kilo, a pound of torrtilla”
The name of La Malinche comes from the homonymous volcano located in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, where Jesús Delgado is from.
Joaquín Torres for NY1 Noticias.
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