Answer:
The root tops the trunk on this backward thing, that grows in the winter and dies in the spring.
Dies half its life. Lives the rest. Dances without music. Breathes without breath.
I can travel from there to here by disappearing, and here to there by reappearing.
What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows.
What wears a coat in the winter and pants in the summer?
This food is a tortilla filled with cheese and sometimes chicken before being heated or cooked.