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Cooking a crabapple desert

Photo by Tony Mindling
November 2002

We have been honored with an invitation to supper on Day of the Dead with the Gonzales family of Teotitlan del Valle, a rug weaving village southeast of the city of Oaxaca. The stone metate is used with a mano for grinding corn for tortillas, as it has been for centuries.