The next day in Oaxaca we took a class in Zapotec cooking, offered by Casa de los Sabores. Our instructor, chef Reyna Mendoza, is a native of Teotitlan del Valle, a Zapotec village where she grew up learning traditional cooking techniques from her mother. Our class began with a trip to a market nearby, La [...]
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casa de los sabores
Posted in food fun, tagged casa de los sabores, cooking class, enchiladas de mole con pollo, ensalada de nopales, helado de frambuesa, indias vestidas, oaxaca on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
saturday at the market
Posted in food fun, tagged pike place market on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We like to walk down to Pike Place Market about once a month. The market is usually teeming with tourists, but the locals also like to go there for the fresh flowers and local produce. Even though it can be slow-going at times, shuffling through all the people, it makes me happy just to see [...]
i smell chocolate in the bathroom
Posted in food fun, tagged cacao, chocolate, scharffen berger on January 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
cacao beans (lifted from scharffenberger.com) i may not be a chocolate expert, nor do i obsess over chocolate as some people do, but i do enjoy eating it — mostly in the form of chocolate chip cookies (which i often crave), cakes, hot cocoa, ice cream, and candy bars (especially the ones that contain caramel). visiting the [...]




