Corn with chile and beans are the three basic food Mexican food, this is a really obvious if we think of most Mexicans, those who do not always have the possibility of buying some other kind of food. It is a popular belief that here in Mexico, no one starves while having its Milpitas. 

While it is true that the ideal would be to have a more complete diet that includes meat, fruit and vegetables, no one can question the nutritional properties of this cereal, at least in our country is the oldest and most common food we know of. 
Some indigenous civilizations attributed powers even considered sacred and a religious element. The Maya believed that such gods had created man with a paste produced from corn. 

Upon arrival of the Spanish, they were met with that throughout pre-Columbian America, men who would be conquered ate this "exotic" plant. 

Today, United States, China and Brazil are the world's leading producers of corn, they exported to other parts of the world. But not everywhere is used as food for men, at least not all the possibilities of preparation, even in many places only the ears are used as animal feed. However, in Mexico and other parts of Central and South America remains the food "consented" to the regular diet. 

Its taste and nutritional properties of a plant are easy to grow, an affordable way to ensure survival, even in poverty and that maize contains calories that result in energy but also contains proteins and some diuretic properties that uplift on other foods . 

Corn leads much of the story of a sedentary people through the cultivation of an agricultural product could stay in one place and establish themselves as masters of their land. The Aztecs or upstream of these were probably the first to link its existence to the rich corn cobs plant. 

Corn consumption in America is therefore pre-Hispanic. There are numerous archaeological evidence dating allow this cereal with more than three thousand years as a staple food of Mesoamerica. 

Today we consume all Mexicans, without distinction, or social, or economic, or cultural. We eat it mostly in tortillas No one refuses to eat a freshly made tortilla wrapped in a block of salt! There are also many dishes based on corn, according to the region of the republic's how to use, a wide variety of dishes. 

In Mexico is prepared from corn tamales, all kinds, even the chubby, the salvutes, the clayudas, panuchos, from the atolls, and chilatoles pozoles, until memelas, sandals and boats, from the bites, the horny and plump up the molotes, the soups and bent, from the uchepos, the tlacoyos and Garnacha, to enchiladas, and tostadas zacahuil; from the chaff, the xocoatoles padzitos and in order is so wide variety of dishes like the same creativity of Mexicans. 

The tortilla is made with the nixtamal, and is called the corn soaked in lime water, from one day to another with which prepares the dough for tortillas. Having prepared the ground in mills nixtamal is public or home (before the grinding stones were used in which prepared the dough with a stone). 

This flat disk that is removed from the body and sewn on the griddle or in industrial machines, is the most famous of the production of corn, preparing her famous tacos, enchiladas, enfrijoladas, flautas, chilaquiles and other dishes together with the previously mentioned part of the range of Mexican cuisine, which is famous throughout the world. 

In 1942 when the first Spanish who found the plant, the grass family, described her as "a kind of grain called corn, cooked taste good, dry and flour", but these conquerors who coveted the gold and silver from the Americas, never imagined that native gold grain was of greatest importance to the world than all the gold and silver from Mexico and Peru. 

The corn plant reaches two feet to six feet high. The leaves form a long sheath closely wound the stem and a wider blade, long and sinuous. Stem born two or three very dense inflorescences or ears wrapped in husks, in the axils of leaves very tight. Its unique shape is elongated and pressed leaves that hide the rows of golden kernels are often the ear is wide on one side and another thin. The most common way known to the ears "news" is the corn, then shed their grains and these are left to dry in specialized processes and then use it in flour, dough or grains for pozole. 

The industrialization of the corn plant has become a major product that comes from a variety of products such as hard starch and gluten, germ and bark that are removed from animal feed, beer, explosives, to sweets and breads; from cosmetics to cooking oils, mayonnaise and soaps. 

Finally, with all that we can understand why the indigenous Mesoamerican maize came to regard as sacred, with which not only feed the body but also the spirit. In many of these civilizations was thanking the gods for having given her corn, through which granted them the right to exist and develop generation after generation.