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10 best photos Guelaguetza 2022Which one is your favorite?Las 10 mejores fotos de la Guelaguetza 2022Cual es tu favorita? ... See MoreSee Less

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💜Great read on Mexicans, Anthony Bourdain wrote this:Americans love Mexican food. We consume nachos, tacos, burritos, tortas, enchiladas, tamales, and anything resembling Mexican in enormous quantities.We love Mexican beverages, happily knocking back huge amounts of tequila, mezcal, and Mexican beer every year. We love Mexican people—we sure employ a lot of them.Despite our ridiculously hypocritical attitudes towards immigration, we demand that Mexicans cook a large percentage of the food we eat, grow the ingredients we need to make that food, clean our houses, mow our lawns, wash our dishes, and look after our children.As any chef will tell you, our entire service economy—the restaurant business as we know it—in most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers. Some, of course, like to claim that Mexicans are “stealing American jobs.”But in two decades as a chef and employer, I never had ONE American kid walk in my door and apply for a dishwashing job, a porter’s position—or even a job as a prep cook. Mexicans do much of the work in this country that Americans, probably, simply won’t do.We love Mexican drugs. Maybe not you personally, but “we”, as a nation, certainly consume titanic amounts of them—and go to extraordinary lengths and expense to acquire them. We love Mexican music, Mexican beaches, Mexican architecture, interior design, and Mexican films.So, why don’t we love Mexico?We throw up our hands and shrug at what happens and what is happening just across the border. Maybe we are embarrassed. Mexico, after all, has always been there for us, to service our darkest needs and desires. Whether it’s dress up like fools and get passed-out drunk and sunburned on spring break in Cancun, throw pesos at strippers in Tijuana, or get toasted on Mexican drugs, we are seldom on our best behavior in Mexico. They have seen many of us at our worst. They know our darkest desires.In the service of our appetites, we spend billions and billions of dollars each year on Mexican drugs—while at the same time spending billions and billions more trying to prevent those drugs from reaching us. The effect on our society is everywhere to be seen. Whether it’s kids nodding off and overdosing in small-town Vermont, gang violence in L.A., burned out neighborhoods in Detroit—it’s there to see. What we don’t see, however, haven’t really noticed, and don’t seem to much care about, is the 80,000 dead in Mexico, just in the past few years—mostly innocent victims. Eighty thousand families who’ve been touched directly by the so-called “War On Drugs”.Mexico. Our brother from another mother. A country, with whom, like it or not, we are inexorably, deeply involved, in a close but often uncomfortable embrace. Look at it. It’s beautiful. It has some of the most ravishingly beautiful beaches on earth. Mountains, desert, jungle. Beautiful colonial architecture, a tragic, elegant, violent, ludicrous, heroic, lamentable, heartbreaking history. Mexican wine country rivals Tuscany for its gorgeousness. Its archeological sites—the remnants of great empires, unrivaled anywhere. And as much as we think we know and love it, we have barely scratched the surface of what Mexican food really is. It is NOT melted cheese over tortilla chips. It is not simple, or easy. It is not simply “bro food” at halftime. It is in fact, old—older even than the great cuisines of Europe, and often deeply complex, refined, subtle, and sophisticated. A true mole sauce, for instance, can take DAYS to make, a balance of freshly (always fresh) ingredients painstakingly prepared by hand. It could be, should be, one of the most exciting cuisines on the planet, if we paid attention. The old-school cooks of Oaxaca make some of the more difficult and nuanced sauces in gastronomy. And some of the new generation—many of whom have trained in the kitchens of America and Europe—have returned home to take Mexican food to new and thrilling heights.It’s a country I feel particularly attached to and grateful for. In nearly 30 years of cooking professionally, just about every time I walked into a new kitchen, it was a Mexican guy who looked after me, had my back, showed me what was what, and was there—and on the case—when the cooks like me, with backgrounds like mine, ran away to go skiing or surfing or simply flaked. I have been fortunate to track where some of those cooks come from, to go back home with them. To small towns populated mostly by women—where in the evening, families gather at the town’s phone kiosk, waiting for calls from their husbands, sons and brothers who have left to work in our kitchens in the cities of the North. I have been fortunate enough to see where that affinity for cooking comes from, to experience moms and grandmothers preparing many delicious things, with pride and real love, passing that food made by hand from their hands to mine.In years of making television in Mexico, it’s one of the places we, as a crew, are happiest when the day’s work is over. We’ll gather around a street stall and order soft tacos with fresh, bright, delicious salsas, drink cold Mexican beer, sip smoky mezcals, and listen with moist eyes to sentimental songs from street musicians. We will look around and remark, for the hundredth time, what an extraordinary place this is. ... See MoreSee Less

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After not having our main annual festival for the last two years, Oaxaca is dressed with colors, music and joy all around again, it's Guelaguetza time!! This video gave us goosebumps❤💗❤Después de no celebrar los dos años pasados nuestra máxima fiesta, los oaxaqueños estamos más que emocionados de volver a ver la ciudad llena de algarabía, colores y música por doquier, Julio, mes de la Guelaguetza!!! Este video nos emocionó mucho 😁❤💗 ... See MoreSee Less

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Oaxaca makes #1 on the World's best cities to travel 2022, again! Oaxaca llega al lugar #1 en la lista de Las mejores ciudades del mundo para visitar 2022! www.travelandleisure.com/worlds-best/the-best-cities-in-the-world-2022 ... See MoreSee Less

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"Day of the deadIn my childhood I lived in a house right in downtown, during these days it was always full of colors and tradition, a total rejoicing.We'd start shopping well in advance, Mamasarita used to take all her grandsons and granddaughters to get "los muertitos" little clay skulls and decorations for our Altar.It was all made from scratch at home, mole, nicuatole (a kind of jello made with corn), calabaza (pumpkin), tejocotes en miel (tiny apples in sweet)..... The big patio was full of burners and "apasles" (traditional big clay pots). Many hands were required and the whole family would participate.Those were very fun days, specially on the 31st. when Mimi would bring out her histrionic qualities and big imagination to make us tremble and fly away scared by her stories, her custome and scary piano notes by the candles light. I was never able to hear the end of any story because I'd be crying hiding in my mom's arms.Everything was ready for the 1st. (Nov. 1st) all the family and friends would come to eat, that was the best day to enjoy the exquisite mole and unbeatable sweets. The assistants would participate in a "calaverita" (short verses referred to dead, often comical) contest, the best one would win a casserole of mole.The 2nd was dedicated to a visit to the cemetery to offer a pray and leave flowers on each of our departed loved ones graves and after that eat as much as possible of what was offered by the street vendors outside the cemetery. The last time I went to get "mis muertitos" with Mamasarita was in 2016, I was pregnant and had a feeling that that was the last time this beautiful old lady would accompany me in this activity, I widely opened my eyes trying to save in my memory those moments walking through Benito Juarez market... Oh how I miss you! But I know you are rejoicing in a better place. Here you left a great legacy and it is our turn to keep our beautiful traditions, most of all with our faith and love to God.Everything has changed now, we can't even go out or get together, but at least in my home I will do my best to prepare all the dishes and to make sure we teach our daughters what a blessing and fortune it is to have been born in this land and in this family.Happy Day of the dead!!!!!!"From my friend Mariló Avendaño Rivera 💜 ... See MoreSee Less

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