西内SINE

奥拉给我介绍了墨西哥卷饼。科罗纳多曾说他会给我介绍的，但他只会吃。
So, Aura showed me about tacos. Coronado said he would, but all he does is eat them.

它始于玉米饼，也就是早在哥伦布之前的墨西哥面包。奥拉说，在欧洲小麦出现之前，墨西哥人总是吃玉米。不过，现在又有一个选择，大米对吧?我不知道英语是不是这么说。我是买大米吃的。
It starts with a tortilla, the bread of Mexico even before Columbus. Aura says it was always corn before European wheat came.. So now there is a choice. Rice? I don’t know. I get rice anyway.

我还是不说了，让奥拉来说。
I think I will stop and let Aura talk.

奥拉AURA

大多数人买玉米饼是因为做玉米饼很费劲，除非你是一台机器。你还可以买到大米饼。做法是:把谷粒晒干，然后在水里煮，然后碾碎成糊状。你把面糊压成一个圆形，然后在一个平面上煎一下，就像油炸一样。结果就是一个饼了。
Most people just buy tortillas because making them is a drag, unless you’re a machine I suppose. And you can get rice tortillas. The way it goes is: You dry the grain, then boil it in water, then crush it into a paste. You flatten the paste into a circle shape, then cook it on a flat surface, like frying. The result is a tortilla.

有了玉米饼以后，你可以把玉米饼当作面包吃，也可以做成三明治。如果你把其它食物放在上面，然后对折，那就是墨西哥卷饼了。同样的材料，如果你把它卷成一个圆筒，那就叫玉米卷了。如果你不煎面饼，你也可以把它放在玉米棒的叶子上，然后加入其它食物，然后把它卷起来，蒸熟吃，那样的话，就是玉米粉蒸肉了。但是做起来更复杂，所以大多数人去买现成的玉米粉蒸肉。玉米饼上的配料通常有豆类、辣椒、绿番茄片、肉丝或鱼丝。你可以直接用手抓着吃玉米饼和卷饼。如果你在玉米卷饼或玉米粉蒸肉上涂上奶酪或酱汁，你可以用叉子来吃。
Once you’ve got your tortillas, you can just eat them like bread on the side, or else basically make a sandwich.. If you put some other kind of food on it then fold it in half, you call it a taco. If you do the same thing but roll it up into a cylinder, you call it an enchilada. If you didn’t fry the disk you made yet, you can put it on the leaves of a corn cob instead and then add the other kinds of food, and then roll it and steam it to cook it. If you do that, you end up with a tamale. But that’s more complicated so most people just buy tamales. The other stuff that goes on tortillas is usually beans, capsicums, green tomato shavings, shreds of meat or fish. You eat tortillas and tacos with your fingers. If you spread something like cheese or sauce over enchiladas or tamales, you use a fork.

西内SINE

或者筷子。
Or chopsticks.

奥拉AURA

根据科罗纳多所做的研究，我不明白他为什么会错过科尔特斯为他的舰长们安排的第一次玉米卷盛宴，那可是一个很特别的事情。
With all the research Coronado has done, I don’t see how he missed what was described as a special occasion when Cortés arranged the first ever taco feast for his captains.

科罗纳多CORONADO

我回来了。你们准备好了吗？
I’m back. Are they ready yet?

更多信息请见:墨西哥卷饼，墨西哥玉米卷。以上内容检索并编辑于2008年11月9日。
More at:Taco,Tortilla. Above retrieved from these sources and edited 11/9/2008