Ideas

Every Tuesday, between the volcanoes, something appears that is difficult to name with a single word. It is not just a market, nor is it only a tradition. Ozumba is a place where different temporalities, economies, and forms of knowledge learn to coexist. The tuesday that reorganizes the territory Today, we know less about our food than any previous generation. We can order dinner through an app, receive it within minutes, and know exactly how many calories it contains. Yet w

Before a mushroom reaches your plate, there were grandmothers, mothers, and daughters who knew how to find it in the dark, who cut it without pulling out the root, and who shook its spores back onto the soil so it could exist again the following year. The first rain of June arrives before dawn. The oyamel fir forest is still dark. A mushroom forager picks up the palm basket and the wooden-handled knife that once belonged to her grandmother. She sharpens it twice against the s

While the city sleeps, at the Mexico City's Central de Abasto it is decided what reaches the markets, how much it costs, and how the climate rewrites the map of what we eat. Almost half a century after it was born, the Central de Abasto is still Mexico City’s great concrete monster, a fascinating beast that breathes to its own rhythm while the rest of us sleep. This place also works as an unwitting oracle. It is here, between the smell of diesel and fresh cilantro, that econo

La Merced es un ecosistema que condensa siglos de cocina, comercio y decisiones urbanas. Cada 24 de septiembre, día de Nuestra Señora de...

Una mirada sensorial al Día de Muertos en el Mercado de Jamaica: flores, aromas, pan de muerto y la memoria viva de una tradición que transforma el espacio y el tiempo.