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| At the house of Mauricio Cervantes, an Oaxaca based artist, we set up an altar, typically installed in homes to respect the ancestors, and make offerings of food, Mezcal and incents. Smells of fresh flowers and burning incense escape from the house altars and immerse the streets of the city making walking around a special experience. | At the house of Mauricio Cervantes, an Oaxaca based artist, we set up an altar, typically installed in homes to respect the ancestors, and make offerings of food, Mezcal and incents. Smells of fresh flowers and burning incense escape from the house altars and immerse the streets of the city making walking around a special experience. |
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| November 3rd | November 3rd |
| //Seasons of the Heart// [[http://www.seasonsofmyheart.com/]] is the name of the place in Rancho Aurora, a few kilometres out of the city of Oaxaca. We were welcomed by Suzanne, a former top-chef and founder of //seasons of the heart// to a friendly, big room and a glass of delicious tamarind water, heard about cooking, tastes and gardening, and learned how to make the traditional Oaxacan cheese called quesillo. Legend has it that this typical regional delicacy came to be by mistake, as a young girl left at home to finish preparing cheese, was overwhelmed by sleep and forgot about the cheese. The next day, as the process had taken an unusual turn, and the //massa de queso// did not look right, she tried to cover up her shortcoming in front of her parents by pouring hot water on top of it. The result was a smooth, moldable lump that could be pulled into long strings. The parents liked the taste, the neighbors as well, and quesillo was invented. | //Seasons of the Heart// [[http://www.seasonsofmyheart.com/]] is the name of the place in Rancho Aurora, a few kilometres out of the city of Oaxaca. We were welcomed by Suzanne, a former top-chef and founder of //seasons of the heart// to a friendly, big room and a glass of delicious tamarind water, heard about cooking, tastes and gardening, and learned how to make the traditional Oaxacan cheese called quesillo. Legend has it that this typical regional delicacy came to be by mistake, as a young girl left at home to finish preparing cheese, was overwhelmed by sleep and forgot about the cheese. The next day, as the process had taken an unusual turn, and the //massa de queso// did not look right, she tried to cover up her shortcoming in front of her parents by pouring hot water on top of it. The result was a smooth, moldable lump that could be pulled into long strings. The parents liked the taste, the neighbors as well, and quesillo was invented. |
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| At the Xaquixe glass workshop [[http://www.xaquixe.com/]] we got an impressive show of how material can be turned to a previous stage in a cyclic process. The workshop collaborates with 4 families that collect and wash used bottles from the village. This starting material is molten at 2010 degrees Celsius, mixed with pigments, and transformed into colourful, vases, glasses, bottles, ornaments. Christian, the man of fire, who welded the furnaces for the glass workshop himself and is now the artistic director of Xaquixe, shared his concern about making the place fully sustainable, replacing the fuel for the furnaces with bio-fuel. | At the Xaquixe glass workshop [[http://www.xaquixe.com/]] we got an impressive show of how material can be turned to a previous stage in a cyclic process. The workshop collaborates with 4 families that collect and wash used bottles from the village. This starting material is molten at 2010 degrees Celsius, mixed with pigments, and transformed into colourful, vases, glasses, bottles, ornaments. Christian, the man of fire, who welded the furnaces for the glass workshop himself and is now the artistic director of Xaquixe, shared his concern about making the place fully sustainable, replacing the fuel for the furnaces with bio-fuel. |
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