98 year-old Rebecca Webb Carranza who cut, fried, and serve some triangular shaped leftover tortilla pedacitos (aka the tortilla chip) at a family party and then mechanized the process, passed on last month. Carranza and her familia’s company, El Zarape Tortilla Factory, modernized the tortilla industry.

Corn and flour disks poured off the conveyor belt more than 12 times faster than they could be made by hand. At first many came out “bent” or misshapen, as company President Rebecca Webb Carranza recalled decades later, and were thrown away.

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