Cooking Mexican at a OAXACA COOKING CLASS & visiting TEOTITLAN MARKET | Teotitlan, Oaxaca, Mexico
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Chasing a Plate is in Teotitlan, Oaxaca, Mexico! And we're experiencing a Oaxaca cooking class!
Today we join Reyna Mendoza at her cooking school El Sabor Zapoteco in Teotitlan, a small Zapotec town outside of Oaxaca to learn how to cook some traditional Zapotecan dishes.
At Teotitlan market, we pick up some ingredients for a soup, a mole, a dessert and a cactus dish. Teotitlan is a Zapotec town outside of Oaxaca. The Zapotec people are the largest indigenous group in Oaxaca so we are cooking Zapotecan food today.
You always start with dessert before your main meal so we had hot chocolate and the traditional way is to make the hot chocolate with water. We had some Mexican sweet breads which we dipped into the hot chocolate, it was delicious.
Time to cook! We roast corn on the comal and grind corn and chillis on the metate. Beyond learning to cook, look where we're learning to cook, it's just beautiful, these grounds are really authentic. It's really, really nice.
After most of the prep and cooking is done we have have a menu of sageza which is like a mole, Oaxaca is known for having 7 famous moles but Reyna says in fact there's like a hundred, so this is just a type of mole that we're having. We're also having a soup and it's got lots of herbs and squash blossom and chicken in it, or chicken stock and then we're having some nopales or cactus in a chilli sauce with fresh cheese sprinkled on top and then we have our gorgeous desserts to finish and we spot some mezcal as well.
What an amazing day learning how to cook traditional Mexican food at a Oxaca cooking class with El Sabor Zapoteco i Teotilan.
We hope we've inspired you to eat and explore like a traveler, not a tourist.
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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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Art and Food in Oaxaca City (4K) / Mexico Travel Vlog #250 / The Way We Saw It
Another day in Oaxaca City, our favourite city in Mexico (together with Mexico City of course). Today we will show you some of the jewels of the numerous museums in this colourful city, the ones that we haven't featured in our earlier vlogs. In the evening we will then show you one of the many culinary hotspots in town. And of course, share with you our meal there...
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Official Mexico Guide's episode on Oaxaca. This is a podcast for travellers, focused on Mexico travel, culture, history, and Mexican food.
Closer look at Indians living in Mexico City
July 10, 2001
1. Wide shot street market
2. Medium shot little Indian kids playing
3. Close up face of Indian teenager
4. Medium shot Indian teenager at market
5. Close up Indian baby sleeping on street
6. Medium shot Indian woman selling potatoes
7. Medium shot Indian woman cutting lettuce
8. Close up hands of Indian woman cutting potatoes
9. Wide shot of Francisca Esquivel Esquivel, Indigenous woman from Michoacan starts speaking before it zooms
10. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Francisca Esquivel Esquivel, indigenous woman from Michoacan:
It was very painful when I came here. I told you I have three kids and I have to work and if I don�t work who�s going to give me the money to support them? So I have to work at any cost, some times it�s raining and I have to bring them here anyway with me to the market, because we don�t want to have to steal
11. Close up Francisca�s youngest offspring sleeping in box, camera pans to her eldest little girl doing her homework and the other playing by her side.
12. Close up of products for sale at Martha Santiago Ruiz�s herbal stall
13. Close up of little skeleton sculptures on sale at Martha�s herbal stall
14. Zoom out from hands paying to wide of Martha selling herbs
July 9, 2001
15. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Martha Santiago Ruiz, Indigenous woman (Zapotecan) from Oaxaca:
We came here looking for (pause) we came here hoping to live a little bit better, and fighting, yes, we are making it bit by bit, but we need a house, support to get a house. We are asking and waiting for support.
16. Wide shot of building where Martha lives with her family of 9 and other 29 Zapotecan families from Oaxaca.
17. Cutaway cat
18. Wide shot building
19. Close up little Zapotecan girls playing with dolls outside house
20. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Luz del Carmen Rendon Fuentes, National Indigenous Congress Representative in Mexico City:
After the 40�s, when the countryside collapses, lots of them emigrate, in the hope they will find better opportunities of earning more money and they have that illusion but they find a very different reality. They don�t have studies and their work is very limited therefore their wages are very low as well. So, they are forced to live marginally, and they only go back to their hometowns when there are festivities or to comply with their traditions (usos y costumbres), but otherwise they stay here and live in a very precarious way.
21. Wide shot old Triqui Indian man
22. Medium shot Triqui women outside their grandmother�s house
23. Close up grandmother - over 80 year old woman who does not remember her age or name and can�t speak Spanish
24. Zoom from close up of Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos to wide shot of Triqui grandmother rocking his grandson
25. Close up baby grandson asleep
26. Medium shot of Triqui grandmother sitting under PRD flag (center-left party) and photo of Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos
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Mexico, a fast-developing economy, is struggling to bridge the gap between the very rich and the very poor.
The bottom 40 percent of Mexican homes account for six percent of income while the top 10 percent of homes receive half the country's income.
A forgotten Mexico, poor, composed principally of the Indian populations survives alongside a modern Mexico, with examples of prosperity worthy of countries of the First World.
What follows is an account of the lives of the Indigenous peoples of Mexico City, the biggest in the western hemisphere.
Official figures say there are 600-thousand Indigenous peoples living in Mexico City, but an estimated three (m) million are said to have set camp here and the surrounding shanty towns.
The majority are hawkers or bootblacks.
It is better than back home, she claims.
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清海無上師簡介
為了那一點點愛，我們上天下地探索，只為尋獲那一點點愛，
將此愛與眾生分享，無論他們在世上哪個角落。
—— 清海無上師
在無數與清海無上師相遇的人眼中，無上師可說是「愛」的化身！
她是一位知名的慈善家、藝術家和靈性導師。她的愛心和奉獻超越文化與種族的藩籬，嘉惠世界各地數以百萬計的人們。其中包括：窮困的人、醫學研究機構、孤苦的老人、身心障礙者、難民，以及遭受地震、水患等受難者，只要人們有需求，她便無私地奉獻所有。
經由這些善舉，我們見證「源源不絕的慈悲心」正是這位深具愛心女士的標誌。而「世界會」會員，也依循著她的愛心典範，成長茁壯。
清海無上師出生於悠樂中部。小時候，她總是盡其所能地幫助醫院裏的病人和窮苦的人。長大後，她到歐洲留學，擔任義務護理人員，以及為紅十字會翻譯。很快地，清海無上師便發現，痛苦存在於所有文化和世界上每個角落。因此，找尋解除這些苦難的方法，成為她生活中最重要的目標。
清海無上師曾與一位德國醫生結婚，過著幸福美滿的婚姻生活。儘管「分離」對他們來說，是個極為困難的抉擇，然而為了無上師高雅的理想，她的先生最後還是同意分離。隨後，清海無上師便展開靈性追尋之旅。
經過一段漫長旅程，最後，她在印度喜馬拉雅山的深山裡，找到一位開悟的明師，傳授她「觀音法門」——觀內在光和音的打坐法門。經過一段時間的精進修行之後，她達到完全證悟的境界。
“你必須把時間留給自己，往內靜思、回歸自己的本性，記起自己內在的本質，並發展它，讓自己像個藝術家般閒情逸致、滿懷愛心、沒有壓力，然後你才能給予。如果你不了解快樂，你就無法給予快樂；如果你沒有和平，你就無法給予和平。
—— 清海無上師
離開喜馬拉雅山後不久，在眾人的誠摯懇求下，清海無上師將「觀音法門」傳授給渴求真理的人們，鼓勵求道者往內找尋自己偉大的品質。
社會各階層的人士，經由修行「觀音法門」後，發現他們生活更滿足、平靜，充滿喜悅。隨後，美國、歐洲、亞洲、南美洲以及聯合國，均邀請清海無上師蒞臨演講，並傳授「觀音法門」。
“我們能分享什麼就開始分享，然後就可以感受到內在的微細變化，我們的意識會注入更多的愛力，這就是一個起步。我們來到這裡是為了學習成長，也為了學習使用我們無限的愛力和創造力，讓我們所處的任何環境變得更好！
—— 清海無上師
清海無上師本身是一位善行義舉的典範，同時她也鼓勵大家美化我們所居住的世界。
經由修行觀音法門，清海無上師發展出多樣渾然天成的才華，透過繪畫、音樂、詩作、珠寶和服裝設計等藝術創作，將來自天國的靈思融入生活之中。
1995年，在大眾的懇求下，首度在國際各流行重鎮，展開服裝設計巡迴展，其中包括倫敦、巴黎、米蘭和紐約等地。清海師父用這些藝術創作的收入從事慈善工作，以獨立的資金來源展現她的務實觀－－我們都應該靠自己的力量幫助他人。
雖然清海無上師不追求外界的認可，但世界各國的官方和私人組織，為表揚她的無我奉獻，在諸多場合頒發給她各式獎項，包括：「世界和平獎」、「顧氏和平獎」、「世界精神領袖獎」、「世界公民人道獎」以及服務大眾傑出人士和提升人權方面的獎章。
她以愛心消弭世上的仇恨，她為絕望的人帶來希望，
她以寛容化解誤會，她散發出偉人光芒，
她是全人類的慈悲天使。
—— 前夏威夷檀香山市長花士先生
清海無上師是當代致力於幫助他人發現及創造美好未來的人士之一。如同許多歷史上的偉人一樣，無上師也有她自己的夢想：
我有一個夢想
我夢想全世界和平
我夢想世界不再有殺生，小孩們可以過著和諧安樂的生活
我夢想國際間能彼此握手言和、互相保護、互相幫助
我夢想這個幾千百萬億年愛心造就的美麗的星球不會被摧毀
我夢想它將會在和平、美麗與愛中延續下去