![]() They had no qualms about cadging for food or purloining it from neighbors or restaurants. They rebuffed the notion of holding down steady employment or paying rent. Unlike their stodgy, orthodox counterparts in Monterey, the men of Tortilla Flat defied social mores, conventions and expectations. The quirky inhabitants of the ramshackle community were a dichotomous lot–hedonistic drunks, adulterers and thieves on one hand on the other, paisanos with surprisingly kind-hearts who asked nothing more from life than loyal friends and a little wine. In his 1935 novel Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck introduced the literary world to the downtrodden denizens of Tortilla Flat, an impoverished barrio on the shabby hillside just outside the respectable city of Monterey, California. “ Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.” ![]() Tortilla Flats New Mexican Restaurant in Santa Fe
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