Oaxaca Mexico The City
Oaxaca at the foothills of the Sierra Madre is a lovely city with Plaza de la Constitución or Zocalo as its centre (see separate video). The Macedonio Alcalá Tourist Corridor is a pedestrian street paved with green cantera. The Cathedral is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption. The richly decorated Santo Domingo de Guzmán Church was constructed between 1555 and 1666. The Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad is built between 1682 and 1697 is of Baroque style.There is also a separate video on the markets.
OAXACA FOOD! TOP 5 dishes you must eat in Oaxaca | Food and Travel Channel | Oaxaca, Mexico
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Chasing a Plate is in Oaxaca, Mexico! We have spent 2 weeks eating as much as possible in Oaxaca. Here are our Top 5 Oaxacan Foods and suggestions for where to sample them...
1. Oaxacan Tamales: especially the mole negro kind! Our favourites were from Geno at La Merced Market.
Traditionally tamales are a masa or a type of corn dough which is steamed in a corn husk and filled with all types of fillings. In Oaxaca the masa is steamed in a banana leaf, this one is filled with mole negro. Mole is a really rich sauce which is prevalent here in Oaxaca and in other states like Puebla in Mexico, it's filled with nuts, chocolate, spices, a whole range of things. This one is mole negro so it's black, so it's got the chocolate in it and it's also got pollo which is chicken. It's really rich from the saucy mole and the chicken is really tender because it's steamed. You can find tamales usually in the morning or late at night on the street or at markets like this one.
2. Memelitas covered in frijoles, asiento (pork lard), Oaxaca cheese and salsa. Our favourite stand Memelas de Gio is only open from about 9:00am until 1:00pm at the latest. The address is: Ávila Camacho 203A, Obrera, 68115 Oaxaca, Oax.
Memelitas are a thicker tortilla, grilled on the comal to which you can add frijoles which are beans, verde or roja sauce, green or red salsa and then Oaxacan string cheese. Super crispy tortilla, really salty string cheese and that verde sauce, really spicy.
3. Nieves (ices), specifically the flavour combo of leche quemada (burnt milk) and tuna (prickly pear cactus). You can find nieves all over the city but Benito Juarez market have a few stands as well as the area in front of Basilica de Buetra Señora de la Soledad.
So leche quemada is burnt milk and tuna is the prickly pear cactus and this combination is famous in Oaxaca The leche quemada is really savoury it almost tastes like you've licked a BBQ because it's so burnt but not in a horrible way and then you've got the really sweet, refreshing cactus to complement it.
4. Tlayudas known as the Mexican pizza. You can find tlayudas at fondas (small family run restaurants) in the markets or on the street late at night. We liked the ones at Comedor Chabelita at 20 de Noviembre market as well as the more traditional ones at Libres Tlayudas located at Calle de Los Libres 212, RUTA INDEPENDENCIA, Centro, 6800, Oaxaca
Also known as the Oaxacan pizza it's basically a really crisp tortilla which has been baked and then it's covered with pork lard, frijoles which is refried beans, vegetables, so we've got cabbage, avocado, tomato and I've also added cecina which is a slice of pork. Traditionally you just get a tlayuda and it's folded in half and it's just got the beans and the pork lard and sometimes a bit of cabbage and then the meat on top but this is a little bit more modern with the veges added. It's also got quesillo, the cheese, Oaxacan cheese.
5. Mole! Oaxaca is famous for its 7 moles. We love mole negro (the dark mole containing chocolate) as well as mole amarillo which you can sample stuffed inside an empanada at the Ocotlan Market (see the link to our Oaxacan Travel Guide above for more details).
After 2 weeks in Oaxaca, those are our top 5 must eats by no means have we covered all the food here but those are our 5 picks that you must try when you're here.
We hope we've inspired you to eat and explore like a traveler, not a tourist. Remember, details below on the food.
Let us know YOUR favourites in the comments below!
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Age old chocolate making traditions live on
1. Close-up hands breaking up chocolate bar into pot for making drinking chocolate
2. Medium Horacio Chavez, third generation of chocolatiers, preparing chocolate
3. Medium his hands whisking chocolate with traditional chocolate whisk
4. Close-up manual whisk
5. Medium Horacio Chavez serving cup of chocolate
6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Horacio Chavez, Chocolatier
We consume it in the morning, in the middle of the day, at night, from our birth till we die, because from our birth people celebrate Christenings and burials with chocolate. It's one of our traditional drinks.
7. Close-up worker working at electric mill, grinding chocolate
8. Medium grinding
9. Close-up cacao beans, almonds and cinnamon sticks in electric mill
10. Medium grinding
11. Medium cacao paste coming out of electric grinder
12. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Horacio Chavez, Chocolatier
The ingredients to make the traditional Oaxaca chocolate are cacao beans, cinnamon, almond and sugar.
13. Close-up worker moulding chocolate paste into bars
14. Close-up exterior sign reading Best International Chocolate Award 1994 France
15. Wide of mill's exterior
16. Wide interior of chocolate shop
17. Close-up cacao beans
18. Close-up packet of drinking chocolate
19. Medium vendors
20. Close-up chocolate box
21. Wide shot family having chocolate breakfast
22. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Teresa Gomez Rodriguez
In the past, the Aztecs drank chocolate before going to fight in a war so that they could last longer in combat.
23. Close-up logo of Oaxaca chocolate
24. Various wides of Oaxaca City
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In the beautiful colonial town of Oaxaca, 600 kilometres (375 miles) south of Mexico City, roasting and enjoying chocolate is a long-standing tradition. Aztec tribes had been drinking it for centuries before the arrival of Columbus.
Today, Oaxaqueños consume five times more chocolate than the rest of Mexico - about five and a-half pounds a year per person. The mix combines one part cacao beans ground with two parts granulated sugar and a quarter part each of cinnamon and/or almonds. It tastes very different from European or American chocolate.
More recent experiments, have added flavours such as vanilla. La Soledad, one of the city's best-known chocolate grinders, has been grinding chocolate here for the more than 50 years. His chocolate won the Best Chocolate Award at the 1994 International Chocolate Festival held in France.
Here, chocolate is made the traditional way. Cacao beans, from which chocolate is made, are grown in Mexico. They are still cultivated in the fertile southern states of Tabasco and Chiapas.
The Aztecs considered it to be a drink worthy of the gods and only the rich and noble were allowed to drink it. They thought it conferred on them both wisdom and energy.
The Spanish conquistadors brought chocolate back to Spain and devotion to chocolate is still particularly strong here since the state of Oaxaca has one of the highest indigenous populations in Mexico.
Chocolate plays an important part in all celebrations, including village fiestas, weddings and baptisms. A cup of chocolate, with pan de yema - bread made with egg yolks - is one of the first things served to guests at a wedding.
They also use chocolate in Mexican cuisine. It's one of the ingredients of the famous mole - a mix of more than 20 chillies and chocolate to make a distinctive sweet and sour sauce.
Many local people still prepare chocolate using the ancient techniques, but the majority go to one of the many electric mills in the city to get their beans ground.
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Baja California Sur, Mexico
Located in northwest Mexico on the southern part of the Baja California Peninsula, this is a region where the desert meets the sea, allowing you to take in breathtaking scenery.
Inhabited from time immemorial, as evidenced by the cave paintings found in the Sierra de San Francisco, near Guerrero Negro, this state has more than 1,200 km (744 mi) of coastline and a wide variety of marine species. Here you can witness the arrival of the gray whale, which migrates each year to the Bahia Magdalena Nature Reserve, the San Ignacio Lagoon and the Soledad y Ojo de Liebre estuaries. You can also enjoy all kinds of recreational activities, including scuba diving, kayaking, windsurfing, sportfishing, mountain biking, hiking and guided camping outings.
In Baja California Sur, you can visit the El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, known for its abundant plant and animal life and declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO. You can also tour the salt mines at Guerrero Negro, or visit important historic monuments like the Jesuit missions built near the town of Loreto. In addition to all that, you can enjoy the excellent services offered along a tourist walkway in Los Cabos, a destination known for its top-notch tourism development, first-rate hotels, excellent golf courses and spas, and fine restaurants where you can indulge in the finest in regional, national and international cuisine.
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Los Zetas
Los Zetas (pronounced: [los ˈsetas], Spanish for The Z's) is a powerful and violent criminal syndicate in Mexico, and is considered by the U.S. government to be the most technologically advanced, sophisticated, and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico. The origins of Los Zetas date back to the late 1990s when commandos of the Mexican Army's forces deserted their ranks and decided to work as the armed wing of the Gulf Cartel, a drug trafficking organization. In February 2010, Los Zetas broke away from their former employer and formed their own criminal organization.
Los Zetas are well armed and equipped, and unlike other traditional criminal organizations in Mexico, drug trafficking makes up at least 50% of their revenue, while a large portion of the income comes from other activities directed against both rival drug cartels and civilians; their brutal tactics, which include beheadings, torture and indiscriminate slaughter, show that they often prefer brutality over bribery. Los Zetas are also Mexico's largest drug cartel in terms of geographical presence, overtaking its rivals, the Sinaloa Cartel. Los Zetas also operate through protection rackets, assassinations, extortion, kidnappings, and other criminal activities. The organization is based in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, directly across the border from Laredo, Texas.
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Veracruz
00:01:12 1 Etymology
00:01:57 2 Geography
00:02:06 2.1 Political geography
00:03:12 2.2 Natural geography
00:06:56 2.3 Climate
00:09:01 2.4 Ecosystems
00:14:24 3 History
00:14:33 3.1 Pre-Columbian
00:17:59 3.2 Colonial period, 1519–1821
00:24:51 3.3 Independence
00:29:28 3.4 20th century to the present
00:31:54 4 Economy
00:33:47 4.1 Agriculture
00:38:03 4.2 Natural resources
00:39:46 4.3 Golden Lane Oil Fields
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00:47:28 5 Culture
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01:20:10 11 Infrastructure
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01:23:57 13 See also
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Veracruz (American Spanish: [beɾaˈkɾus] (listen)), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (American Spanish: [beɾaˈkɾuz ðe iɣˈnasjo ðe la ˈʝaβe]), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states that, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided in 212 municipalities and its capital city is Xalapa-Enríquez.
Veracruz is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north, San Luis Potosí and Hidalgo to the west, Puebla to the southwest, Oaxaca and Chiapas to the south, and Tabasco to the southeast. On its east, Veracruz has a significant share of the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico.
The state is noted for its mixed ethnic and indigenous populations. Its cuisine reflects the many cultural influences that have come through the state because of the importance of the port of Veracruz.
In addition to the capital city, the state's largest cities include Veracruz, Coatzacoalcos, Córdoba, Minatitlán, Poza Rica, Boca Del Río and Orizaba.