Atole tradition

Once a year towards the end of the dry season, the village nearby has a fun little morning tradition. Everyone makes their way to the very top of the hill. Six different families lug *huge* pots of their best atole to share with the entire town. We get up early, we do not eat breakfast (you only make that kind of mistake once), and we walk to town to enjoy breakfast with friends.

For those who have never had the pleasure of drinking atole, it is a thick, hot drink, typically made from ground corn. Depending

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The International Flavors of Cooking for Community

What do you do when you find yourself serving meals to a German, an Englishman, a Mexican, a Canadian, an Italian, a Frenchwoman, and an Austrailian?

This is not the beginning of a bad joke.

Every week we serve to a very international crowd.  People from all over the world come to the Bosque to participate in some of the ecological programs, enjoy personal retreats, and learn about permaculture.  Our past visitor map is becoming more and more crowded:

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Feeding the diversity is no easy task.  Millions of taste buds from hundreds of different culinary

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On the importance of meals

Here in rural Mexico, around 2pm everything shuts down.  Shops close.  When we go on our weekly supply runs, we race madly to finish all our errands before 2 o’clock – if we are off in our timing we risk having to wait around until 4 or 5pm, when the shops gradually re-open.

On a recent afternoon I walked to a small nearby village to pick up some sour cream for our dinner.  The time was 3pm, but I was happy to see one of the stores open.  I knocked to alert the shopkeeper I was there.  Knocked again.  And again.

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