🙋🏽👨🏻👱🏾👩🏾👱🏻♀️The Latinx Collective - Issue 38
THIS WEEK'S SIX:
Woww, talk about being an ally!
Diane Guerrero, former co-star of Netflix's "Orange is the New Black," will portray cult comic book character Crazy Jane in Warner Bros.' live action series called Doom Patrol. It's a 13-episode straight-to-series order that begun production last year and will debut in 2019 on DC Universe, the joint venture of Warner Bros Digital Networks and DC Entertainment.
Nunez: What was your biggest lesson learned during that season of your life?
Burgos: I learned so much about life, about myself and about work ethics in the military but the biggest lesson I learned was not to give up on things no matter how difficult they seem. In the military “no” is not an option. I had to do things that were tough even when I thought I wouldn’t be able to. You find a way to do it, and I had to dig deep inside myself a lot.
Ricardo “Rick” Ortega, co-owner of Kernel of Truth Organics (L.A.’s first exclusively organic tortillería, located in Boyle Heights) shares the process for making the perfect corn tortillas. Turns out that the secret to great tortillas is great masa, and the secret to great masa is nixtamalization, an ancient Mesoamerican technique that transforms hard-to-digest corn kernels into a nutritious (and delicious) staple grain.
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