Today, Benjamin Franklin is recognized as one of America's Founding Fathers, a great inventor, diplomat, and politician. But in in his lifetime, Benjamin Franklin was known for something entirely different: carefully controlled flatulence.

Indeed, it was his uncanny ability to control not only the length of his releases, but their pitch and volume that made him famous in the taverns and concert halls of Philadelphia. Franklin's amusing commentaries on the human digestive system, published in the Pennsylvania Gazette under the pseudonym Flautus Amplus, attracted the attention of the Freemasons, who in turn introduced him to national politics.

As a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Franklin often used his unique ability to end long debates. Thomas Jefferson once wrote: "From the Pennsylvanian came a statement most profound / did conclude the debate with nary a sound." As ambassador to France, Franklin secured critical military support by performing a perfect rendition of "God Save the King" for the French court.

After a lifetime of generous public service, Franklin retired to seaside villa in Carmel, California, where he composed two symphonies for tuba and winds.

Many consider Ronald Reagan to be one of the most musical presidents in American history. And it's true. Not since William Howard Taft's virtuoso tuba solos in the Rose Garden has a president made such an impression on musical evolution of the United States. Reagan played instruments as varied as the sitar, the flutophone and Theremin.

During a 1982 visit to Germany, following his address to the Bundestag, Reagan recorded the bass track to the hit song, "99 Luftballons." He went on to surreptitiously record tracks with Mr. Mister, Olivia Newton-John, and Wall of Voodoo. Of course, due to national security concerns, most of Reagan's work was attributed to Prince and Secretary of the Interior James Watt.

The father of nonviolent resistance, Mohandas Gandhi made an indelible impression on the course of human history.  And he also made an indelible impression on a lot of pork ribs.   After a successful career ousting the British from India, he decided to "seek knowledge of wider the world."  Adhering to a philosophy of austere simplicity, be kept all of his possessions in a shoebox carried under his arm.  Upon landing in Natchez, Mississippi in 1949, Gandhi sauntered into "Big Willy Little's Famous Barbee-Q." It was a visit that would change the course of history.   Upon sampling Big Willy's sauce, Gandhi declared, "I like your BBQ, I do not like your restrooms."  He spent the next five years hitchhiking across America, perfecting his own recipe.  He ultimately opened a barbecue restaurant, "Skinny Mo's" in Chicago, in 1955.  In a 1960 appearance on The Jack Paar Show, Gandhi made his famous pronouncement, "It is not enough to buy the sauce.  You must be the sauce you wish to see in the world."

Creating miraculous images on tortillas, tacos and tostadas is an art that I have spent years practicing.  And yet, like a Buddhist monk creating an intricate mandala, I am always learning.  With every new tortilla comes greater wisdom, greater understanding.  Should I have used more browning sauce?  Should I have set the heat gun on a higher temperature?  Should my gin and tonic have had more lime, or should I be drinking martinis instead?  These are the questions all great artists ask themselves.

But to spare you the long journey over the prickly cactus of art, I will reveal the steps taken to create a Miraculous Jesus on a Tortilla. 

• Step 1: Mix some Kitchen Bouquet browning sauce and Burnt Umber acrylic paint.
• Step 2: Apply to a flour tortilla.
• Step 3: Finish up the image.  Have a drink.
• Step 4: Use a heat gun to burn the tortilla and brown the sauce
• Step 5: Crap, you burned the tortilla too much!.  Have another drink, feed the burned tortilla to the squirrels.
• Step 6: Draw another picture of Jesus on the tortilla.
• Step 7: Use the heat gun again.  This time, be careful.
• Step 8: Now that's a Jesus!  Have another drink.

And looking forward to elevating your artistic tastes.