To Market We Go
Sunday, December 21, 2008

San Felipe del Agua

Miriam and Luis live in a "suburb" of Oaxaca called San Felipe del Agua. The water for Oaxaca came from a spring beyond the top of this town via this aqueduct. The street from Oaxaca up to San Felipe runs almost without deviation along the aqueduct.

Tlacolula on Market Day!

Awnings










Piled Produce











Almost Edibles

Their legs are tied.

Other "Edibles"

pork rind

grasshoppers

grasshoppers (in chiles)

Cinnamon

cubit-long pieces

Inedibles

rat poison labeled "The Last Supper"

fire crackers

gourds

People



buying metates

sharpening knives

as graffiti on walls

in confession

and in a funeral procession


And, of course chocolate

We "needed" new batches of chocolate. So we returned to the same chocolate miller who had prepared the chocolate we had been drinking all week long. While there, Debbie noticed that the bags of sugar had a hechsher!

And then, Mark found a "bag maker" who uses those empty sugar bags to make tote bags (that we later saw used as such in Mexico City).

Home

Along the way home, we slowed in order to take a photo of something Miriam and Luis had not noticed before, a sign for "Villa Kibutz," about which we still know nothing.

We arrived tired, but ready to cool the chocolate (for scoring and dividing) and to prepare potato latkes for first night of Ḥanukkah (Januca in Spanish).

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