Californios Nixtamalization

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“I thought I understood nixtamalization. Then I had dinner at Californios. Nixtamalization, I had thought, was the process whereby corn was transformed into masa via a soak in an alkaline solution. That’s true. But what did that have to do with the crunchy mandarin orange I was eating? Billed as a “nixtamalized and…”