1.   Grilled cornmeal pastries have cheese or ground meat fillings.

2.   It is also used to season meat fillings, legumes and salads.

3.   It can be pastalike dough wrapped around a savory meat filling that is steamed or poached.

4.   Most people spread the masa on husks while grandson Marcos Varela and great-granddaughter Jackie Sanchez added the meat filling.