Burrito (ORIGINAL ACRYLIC PAINTING) 8" x 10" by Mike Kraus Painting

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty The Burrito acrylic paint on canvas board 8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm) 202209055 © copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc. Around 10,000 B.C., a corn tortilla food wrap became a common dinner in Mesoamerica. For thousands of years and countless generations, the recipe was passed on and evolved. The Pueblo Native American of southwestern United States and northern Mexico ate it as a staple meal. Cowboys roaming California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, and Guanajuato found it to be an easy meal to eat while rounding up cattle. There's a couple legends where the name "burrito" came from. One says it's because a street vendor in Ciudad Juárez named Juan Méndez sold the meal while riding a donkey. Another claims it came from a term of endearment used by a man selling lunches to poor school children. Today, the burrito is served in an infinite amount of restaurants in a myriad of varieties. Yet another example of how food shows we have more in common than we have in differences.