Word: koshosh
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Back to work. We leaned for a while on our hoes, then began again, working as the sun rose higher, slowly hoeing down the mountains of Middle America. We stopped at high noon, to eat again: cold beans, perhaps, and koshosh--toasted and hardened tortillas, corn hardtack, the unspoilable staple the Indians take on all trips...
...evening there was more koshosh, warmed by leaning pieces against the fire, beans, stewed squash, or some other stewable kind of weed. Or perhaps chilis crushed in a bowl, with water and bits of onion added, into which to dip the koshosh. As darkness fell, the Indians sat over the oak fire and talked of Zinacantan politics, of weather and witchcraft, sickness and crops. At the center of the world things are fairly simple, after all; and it gave me a good feeling. There were only the elements, the earth, the corn, the fire, the night; and out of them...
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