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...museum visits. Cabrera began our session with a trip to a traditional market--not the main one most tourists visit--where we got to know local produce, taste handmade cheeses and meet the growers who supplied our ingredients. Later, as we prepped the two dozen items for a Oaxacan mole negro (chicken in a dark-brown spicy sauce), Cabrera explained its origins. The dish was developed during the Spanish colonial era and contains ingredients from as far away as India. "My class isn't just about making recipes," she says. "I'm sharing a tradition...
...scarcity of Weber blue agave in Jalisco has meant that some distilleries have quietly augmented their supply with cheaper agave from the southern state of Oaxaca--outside the officially designated zone. Sales of Oaxacan agave to Jalisco have roughly doubled in the past year. Mexican regulators are trying to crack down on the rogue suppliers and buyers and have closed at least one distillery. The smuggling also threatens production of tequila's less tony cousin, mescal, made with unauthorized agave species or Weber blue grown outside the designated zone, by driving up Oaxacan agave prices...
...COCEI, which has energetically implemented popular civic reforms. The P.R.I, did not take any legal action last spring when the COCEl reinstalled a radical peasant, Leopoldo de Gyves, as mayor of Juchitán. But as the elections approached, the ruling party began to assert its power. Government-run Oaxacan newspapers ran spurious accounts of fizzled COCEI rallies. Seven days before the elections, P.R.I, and COCEI sympathizers clashed violently in Juchitán, leaving two people dead and dozens injured. Accusing De Gyves of having fomented the incident, the state governor simply replaced him with a P.R.I, man and postponed...