comal
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of comal
1835–45, < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl comālli
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Murals on side streets depict women cooking tortillas on a comal and musicians playing guitar and accordion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
Rather than portray such a violent scene, Nava shows Rosa arriving at her mother’s comal and finding it full of white butterflies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Mrs. Ángela has a large comal, or griddle; a blender; pots and daylight that casts her kitchen in a pale-yellow hue reminiscent of chicken broth.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
The woman's mother had buried her molcajete, metate, comal, and cazuelas in a hole in the ground and fled.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2023
The comal was propped above the flames on three rocks—a cooking method as old as Mesoamerican culture.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
“We tried to lay out the adobe bricks and the comales in a way that felt like you were in your grandmother’s kitchen in a garden,” Garcia said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
To build the kitchen and three comales for this meal, for example, she gathered adobe bricks and wet clay from her hometown, San Mateo Yucutindoo, in the mountains outside Oaxaca City.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
And while the tacos are the stars here, Fuentes and his cooks shower the same amount of attention onto the consomé, a smoky, brothy goat soup served up from a furtive crock behind the comales.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
He is rightly protective of his recipes, but admits that one secret ingredient are the two comales he imported from Mexico.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2019
Foods like frijoles and papas, clothing, plows, tools, nails, machetes, ropes, leather goods, baskets, comales for the toasting of tortillas and such, cleaning rags, buckets, and jeans jeans jeans, which have taken over.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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