Your personal guide to Oaxaca, México
In Oaxaca there are diverse cultures, all of them very important and they give diversity to the cultures, food and handcrafts of Oaxaca. Some of them stand out because of their level of development in the past, like zapotec and the one that I´m going to talk about today: the mixtec. ORIGINS As the zapotecs, … Read moreTHE MIXTEC CULTURE
There are a lot of cultures in Oaxaca, that makes it multicultural, one of them is the Zapotec culture that with the Mixtec are the most famous. ORIGINS The Zapotecs are the most old group of Oaxaca, this culture surged and had their apogee in the Central Valleys but they also inhabited in other big … Read moreTHE ZAPOTEC CULTURE
The fundamental part of Mexican gastronomy is tortilla, with this we do a lot of dishes. ORIGINS Corn has been a very important element in pre-hispanic culture and gastronomy, Mayan people believed that we were made of corn, and there were gods of corn in the pre-hispanic Mesoamerican cultures. There are proves of the beginning … Read moreTHE CORN TORTILLA, A FUNDAMENTAL PART OF MEXICAN GASTRONOMY