Editor’s note: The interview for this story was conducted in Spanish and translated into English.
Beato Ortiz Hernández was born with the tortilla. As a kid in the Mexican state of Guerrero, he said tortillas were never missing from a meal.
“I am Mexican, and I know other Latinos also eat tortillas,” Ortiz Hernández said. “Tortillas are in our blood.”
Tortillerias or tortilla factories were hard to find when he immigrated to Richmond in 2000 at the age of 15…