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Far above Ahuisculco, our friends Pablo and Ceci
and Dan in a favorite tree. Coco is tired from the climb.
The Virgin of Guadalupe, on a corner store. Note the Bimbo Bear advertising Mexico's most popular bread.
We explore the streets of town...
Ceci shows us her Grade School. This is very similar to the schools where Omar teaches. The tires are playground
equipment.
The house is adobe, with a tile roof.
This is the kitchen.
Ceci's parents have a traditional round oven. Ceci's mother says the stone door is too hard to remove when it is
hot. She's looking for a metal one.
A giant toad lives in the garden. He must weigh a pound and a half.
Corn season is past. What we call corn smut, a black fungus that attacks the kernels, is known here as cuitlacoche--Mexican
caviar. It is delicious in quesadillas. Here it is old and dried out.
A rustic ladder
The door is held together by old saw blades. Nothing goes wasted here
Time to eat! The family gathers in the patio
Meat and Spring onions go on the grill
Sister Cristi begins grinding chilies in a molcajete
Tomatillos from the family's garden are shucked and ground into the sauce, along with a little sea salt
The finished salsa is served in the molcajete
And models a necklace traditionally used during the Festival of the Virgin of Zapopan, on October 12
In the patio the corn is roasting
We let the first piece cook too long, but the rest was tender and delicious
And it tastes great! Chewy, smoky, and a little bit sweet
Full and content
Coco makes friends with "The strangest dog I've ever seen."
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