This Chef Keeps the Flavors of Ancient Mexico Alive
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2018
- Mexico's Zapotecs are an indigenous community living in Oaxaca, Mexico. Before Spanish colonization, Zapotecan civilization was a thriving epicenter of food, culture and tradition. Today, chef Abigail Mendoza is on a mission to keep those traditions alive by cooking the food of her ancestors. All the dishes she cooks-including pre-hispanic mole, stuffed chiles with Oaxaca cheese and atole-are made using ancient techniques. Recognized by the world’s best chefs for her dishes, she hopes to keep the food of her ancestors alive and thriving.
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Please make longer videos! This topic was extremely interesting but I'm saddened that it was only 3 minutes long
So much this. They already are there filming, why on Earth are they giving so little info?! Even if each one was short, do three!
It took more effort than u think, give them a break
I want to see more as well!! What a beautiful smart way she thinks!!!
Ok kiba
If you want a really good amount of informático about mexican food, our foor (i'm mexican), you should come here and try it in our culture, one cannot go without The other so you can understand and feel it :)
When she says that their ancestors used to cook while kneeling, to keep in contact with Mother Earth because she feeds us... 🥺🥺🥺
That spoke to me too!!
That was Powerful 🙏
And wholesome 🥺
Aranyani Fox beautiful we’ll said and she right 💖🌹
This is the way my grandma cooks
This is legit awesome. Quick idea: they should start a youtube channel to teach the world about native mexican cuisine!
Nico Marschat, people who know really great Mexican cuisine (not Mexican chefs I’m talking traditional cooks like the woman in the video) tend to lie or not share at all they’re recipes. It’s their own secret.
I suggest you search Yuri de Gortari, a Mexican chef that keeps traditions alive. I think his UA-cam channel is called Cocina identidad.
Bro, Go to Mexico... Dont wait until a youtube 720 hd channel tells you about how good stuff is, go and taste it for yourself if you're curious... and you be the judge... you only live once to let youtube tell you whats cool and whats not...
@Luminou dunno nah bro you have to be someone important for the cartels to want to kidnap you. Being mugged? Yeah that's completely possible and very probably.
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That moment when food that came from a thousend year ago looks tastier than the food you make
😄 you right
press f
not really
Gordan Ramsay wants to know your location
Not surprising at all - to find that general people of the past made better home-made food. Now, it's more about reliance on processed stuffs.
This looks extremely delicious and one can feel it's cooked with the heart and soul.
Poop
@@kelpygaltaccount9416
N01ne are you mad cause you eat process foods. Mr poop
666th like her food looks like shit
LOS ANGELES - 144 mm
I’m a progressive but you have to shut the hell up
@@lexluthor2988 and somehow it still looks better than you
"When you care about culture, your people, your food, you conserve that tradition" god I love this quote, I would love to meet her
Preserve*
I would love to eat her cooking! 😋
i wonder what attacks would happen if a white person said that
AMEN!! Mexicans have done a great job of elevating their culture/traditions.
@@davidjoelsson4929 If it was a Nordic man that had strong interest in his old traditions, and feeding his community meals eaten over a millennia ago while they're prepared in the same manner, then no one would really bat an eye.
Wow, the way she speaks and cooks, so much passion, so much wisdom and history of her people in those eyes, truly a soul of a master chief who truly loves everything about her heratige.
*I wish there were a way to reach my hand thru my screen and try some of those tortillas*
You and everyone watching 😆😄😁😍😍😍
Yyyyyyyyyyuuuup! 😆
Hahahaha! I swear I thought the same.😂
Willy Wonka invented something like that
I've had the pleasure of experiencing such thing and its so delicious, it becomes the main dish.
This restaurant DOES NOT allow tourist bus crowds, Chinese mega groups or people who just want to take pictures.
They are not set up for this.
Good, that kind of stuff only cheapens the atmosphere.
Good
💞💞💞thank goodness
I'll show up backpacking if I must. Keep it simple.
@@npeace312
You would be warmly welcomed.
The local bus departing from Oaxaca city is your best bet .
It's wonderful how you can hear that her Spanish differs from the rest of mexican accents as in Oaxaca many places still have their native tongue as their first language.
Yea, Purepecha
@@vincentmagallonshe is zapoteca
"One cooks with the soul and with the spirit". Such a beautiful woman. One I am proud to share and inherit culture with. Dios me la bendiga.❤️
This wonderful lady is doing some of the most important work on the planet; preserving who we are.
400 years from now when we are just stories, people will be able to eat the foods of people ancient to US because this woman and all the people like her.
If you preserve and share your culture with love, you are a hero. No arguments.
I tried that
Was driven away
Pope “with love”
I was planning a trip to Mexico soon so I guess I’ll have to visit Oaxaca now. We definitely need a longer video though because this woman still had so much more wisdom to share.
I strongly recommend Oaxaca, Puebla, Hidalgo, Chiapas and Guerrero
Jenn H i just visited Oaxaca it’s really fun my family over there runs a small restaurant they make good food too. If u go to Oaxaca central there meat there is really good but I only went to one part which was Ejutla de Crespo but it was fun
Oaxaca is amazing, the best food no the country HANDS DOWN!
yaass I recommend you to go on July during the GUELAGUETZA 💚❤ If you truly want to experience Mexico and it's indigenous roots, you must go on the time of this festival. It's one of Oaxaca's biggest celebration.
Go to Yucatán best food made the Mayan way.
Very cool. I remember when Bourdain visited these ladies a few years ago for one of his very early Parts Unknown episodes. Great to see them again. 👍
@Tosh T GO BACK TO THE FUTURE!
Do you have a link to that episode? Id like to watch it!
Miss that genius
Tosh T R.I.P
Jose R me too!!
She is so right on every level. Traditions are dying and soon we'll have nothing sacred.
That's the problem with traditions though. Everyone wants to preserve it in its entirety,including the bad traditions. Meanwhile you can preserve a tradition if it's something the general public likes. I mean who wouldn't want to try authentic foods from around the world?. Or listen to music played with instruments from ancient cultures.
This video reminds me of my late grandmother who used to cook like this in my backyard. She is also zapoteca. 😭🤧🙆
Miss her!
Is there a Nobel Peace Prize for this? Cause this lady needs one asap.
Spiral Breeze Can I get one too! I make the hot pockets!!
What peace has she made?
She made a peace of food. 😏 heheheh
peace?
She's not the only one doing this kind f thing, she's just highlighted. Probably a great chef, but ellen won for being a lesbian and obama won for being black and ruining libya so she damn sure do.
AYEEEE ANY FELLOW OAXACAN?!!! I’m from oaxaca city ☺️☺️☺️☺️ this makes me happy... miss my grandma though..
also, it’s crazy how these dishes are still being cooked. My mom makes chicken mole from the same base but she adds different ingredients. Also the stuffed chili peppers.. woaaahhh never thought of that before.
lobsterbale Legesse that cool, what I’m aware of my grandparents are from Predro Cajonos/ Puebla and tlacolula and speak zapotec. They’re are all catholic so that’s cool to know :)
¡Oaxaqueño presente!
How about fellow zapotecan?
My dad is from Oaxaca, he is Mixteco.
EBecky that’s cool!!!! Man... I sometimes feel like an outsider because i grew up in a community where predominantly Mexican folk from Guadalajara and Sinaloa... so I couldn’t relate to the food and stuff... but when I go to parties from relatives and places that are predominantly oaxacans I feel alive and it’s crazy...
This is the reason why continue to cook the way my mom did and the way my mothers mother did and so on and so forth. Mexican food is a culture on it own and I believe that our traditions need to be loved and cherished by those who are from the seed 🇲🇽🧡 viva Mexico 🤗
Viva!!!
I would love to try a meal from this great restaurant.
Cool video.Quality content as always
I just showed my mom this and she’s from Zacatecas and she came here whwn was 13 alone and she said she used to grind things down the same way with a rock on her knees and her mom made her do it and her doing that gave her some muscles and she always used to tell me why she has big arms and I finally see why she loved this video it took her back she’s 46 so her seeing this ladies cook like she used too brought her back a lot of memories and I haven’t seen her smile while seeing something about her past in a while so thank you.
ojala conozcas zacatecas la tierra de tus padres una tierra muy rica en tradicion gastronomia y bellos pueblos
My heart is really crying, i miss my country. Te amo mexico.
Rise up my beautiful native sisters!
I love when she said sisters, love old coulture, because human to each others brothers and sisters. This materialstic world is really bad for mother earth and for human. No respect for human no respect for nature. Greetings from Central Asia.
Proud of our blood and ancestry!
:') ❤🧡💛
🇸🇷🇨🇴 ✊🏽
Yes we shall rise up! Love from a Mixtec:)
In Mexico we say Love enters the heart from the stomach❤️🥘👌🏼
My mom in south Texas always says "Pansa llena, corazon contento" :)))
Man, this is resistance. Makes me so damn emotional to see people doing everything they can to save their culture because it has been threatened for so long. I love this video so much💗
My abuelitos are Zapotec and make the best food! Made from scratch and with love!
Food is one of the the best ways to get in touch with your roots. Cooking has more to do with history than most people realize. It’s such a beautiful thing.
They are so gorgeous! Unfortunately this video was too short :(
This is beautiful, I love Mexico's indigenous culture.
I spent a semester in Mexico studying and living and I feel this to my bone! I miss that beautiful place like my second home. Hay que regresar a este país lleno de cultura y tradición. Me encanta que la comida mexicana tenga la historia de su origen, sus raises indigenes.
My mom is native mexican. she’s from Oaxaca (san melchor betaza)too !! She speaks the native language (zapoteco)
tradition is very important. its part we are and tells the story of the past
@John Kevin I bet if those women were german you would have a nazi pun for them too. Stop mocking what you cannot understand or compensate with and you might grow as a person.
And it's a sing of the bravery of the indigenous and afroindigeous peoples who resist genocide, slavery, dehumanization, exploitation, ecocide, white supremacy, capitalism and all kinds of oppression.
With all due respect, God bless you and your family!
@@moralexbme germans wouldnt do that, they'd think its nazism to practice their indigenous recipes and would just have a muslim cook arabic food
@@halloweenallyearround4889 shut up
Such a sweet abuela keeping tradition alive.
I like this video. It saddens me to see how quickly we are all losing the art of cooking. We are so busy nowadays that we want everything fast and processed.
Speak for yourself theres plenty of people who still cook including myself. Its not rare.
@@universalchode7232 not like those traditional cooks.
I cook every day. The only difference is I don't have someone yanking me off about it.
Universal Chode ur Zapotec too?
Culture is beatiful, I can't imagine a world without it.
start being a nationalist then cause thats the only way to preserve it
That kind of stone grinding is practiced in south India too. You can still see it rarely in Kerala.
That’s really cool! Cx
In Mexico is called "metate". "Molcajetes" are Mexican mortars. All of them made from volcanic stone.
In tamil we call it ammi. still lot of house are using it in villages..also used in marriage customs
In many regions of India in the eastern zone too.
@@halloweenallyearround4889
Also imo the best way to make delicious salsa.
Never buy the stuff that comes in a can in a supermarket. It's mainly just tomato chunks and it's super watery 😒
That looked Divinely tasteful, left my mouth watered
🙏🏽 bless her and her culture and traditions
I’m so happy I’m Mexican and proud
Chef Rick Bayless said it best, "Mexican food is the food of the gods".
That’s so nice to hear as a Mexican ☺️
I love Mexico with all my heart even though I am just an european girl who has never been to mexico
Why dont you love europe
@@algonzalez6853 Where did she say she didn't love Europe???????????????
@@algonzalez6853 What's wrong with loving Mexico?
Por supuesto que amo a Europa... pero a México y a su cultura le tengo un gran cariño y apresio... no se porque 😂... tal vez porque es siempre muy auténtica
@@algonzalez6853 She can love whatever she wants man smh
Fudge! I'm hungry now. All of that food looks non toxic, no preservatives, all 💯 mother nature made. ♥️♥️♥️
It might have salt or vinegar which is a preservative
Absolutely obsessed with ancient Mexican,Guatemalan, Peruvian cooking. As I became vegetarian months back, I realized how important it is to value the food you put into your body. This is pure I can’t imagine how amazing that food must be
This is the Mexico I grew up with and loving!!...everything is hand made literally!!...things like cooking like this is what brings family and friends, people together!
Thank you guys for this video 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽Viva México
Viva!!!
Beautiful, this is also similar methods to how Bangladeshi’s still cook today preserving their culture. Wonderful
My grandma Is from Chiapas, her grandma was a Zapoteca woman, she teach her all those traditions about the love about prehispánic food, watch this makes me feel proud of my native blood ❤️❤️❤️
Everyone in the world should appreciate their Country's and local culture, and keep it alive, not only the food but also the traditions, customs and clothes, language and dialects too.
*They're all such beautiful souls.* 😍
*Thank you Great Big Story for teaching us about interesting cultures around the world.*
Amazing. Don’t ever lose your ancestors in this ever changing world.
I agree with her in general we forget to pray before eating.We forget to chant to the gods when planting our crops and before cooking our meals.We have forgotten to chant to Mother Earth to bless us with rain and healthy prosperous crops.The earth is alive she wants prayer.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
This makes me so proud in being a Zapotec. There’s nothing like Oaxacan Cuisine.
lobsterbale Legesse stfu
😊
BEAUTIFUL! I wish I could taste her foods!! 💜
Viva Oaxaca.
Viva San Miguel Ahuehuetitlan!
Proud of my people, my traditions, my culture, the food, and most importantly..the native language.
Ok but this needs to be like 10 times longer 😩
Mexican food is the best tasting food in the world.
UNLEASHING POTENTIAL - PSYCHOLOGY VIDEOS yessirrrr
Oaxaca has arguably the most delicious and diverse cuisine in Mexico.
That's totally debatable
Not really
Japanese... Mecixan is cheap fast food.
Que Dios bendiga a mi gente Mexicana! Viva Mexico! 🇲🇽
This made me cry.
I’m now in Mexico, Guadalajara studying here but alone and I’ve been basically living off fast food and quick things I can buy because I don’t really have the time to cook.
What she said about losing that part of cooking is very true.
My mom hasn’t visited her homeland in 16 years but that doesn’t mean she never forgot where she came from she would always cook for me and my sisters and we earned a great understanding of our own culture because of her methods of making us understand through her cooking.
My mom loves her homeland very much and so do we.
I'm zapotec and I'm sadden that my grandparents know how to speak the language (dialect) and I dont . But am glad to grow up with the food from my ancestors.
Well u best to start now
AMEN HOW AMAZING HER WORDS WERE! SHE WAS PERFECT & AMAZING! SHE NEEDS HER OWN SEGMENTS.
SHE'S SO NICE,,
Makes me proud to me Mexican American 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 Guerrero!!!
She's SO RIGHT, all indigenous people had our ways of cooking and it was much more healthier than anything else on this Earth!💓💓💓 She's freaking amazing and her food looks so dang scrumptious!😍 BLESSINGS to her...
the food seems so great but still their smiles are the greatest!
I wish this was longer! So beautiful inside and out. Thanks for sharing! 🙏🏼
The lady seems so sweet and wholesome! Idk y but she reminds me of Mama Coco.
You need to do these documentaries with people all over the world!!! I would totally watch. The Alaskan Inuits, Irish women, german, French, Russian, Australian natives, Japanese, Chinese, Singaporean, etc etc.
So inspiring and so much information as well. This woman made me open my eyes about how we have become materialistic.
I'd make a trip just for her food! Beautiful process. 💛
Yes ma'am! The spirit of ancient Mexican cuisine is more alive than ever, in each one of the traditional Mexican cooks. I am working on a Book of traditional Mexican recipes that I plan to publish this year and my tamales are the bomb! 😉
Good luck with that, I'm mexican and i wish you success with it 👌🏽
What's the name of your book?
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing your gifts, Abigail. One interesting thing, is that ,cheese was not eaten by the ancient Mexicans. Cows were brought to Mexico by the Spaniards 5 centuries ago. So still, the dishes are pretty old. Some of the best food I every tried in Mexico was completely vegetarian and cheese free, in fact - atole, guacamole, hot chocolate, and beans cooked with culantro and Mexican oregano. That is probably how most regular people in Mexico have eaten for centuries
Yasss the mexican tradition is still alive throughout my family just like the women in this vid
this isnt “mexican tradition” girl lol
Danny Dircio exactly. it’s disrespectful to label our cuisine after our colonizers and the ones who displaced us and continue to mistreat us.
Danny Dircio that’s completely untrue. spaniard descendants rule the government politically.
@@succme1229 It is Mexican because Mexican tradition is part indigenous and part European. If you take the indigenous away, you're left with nothing. t's not like in the US, where black was set apart from white, and indigenous were shoved away to oblivion. In Latin America, it was all incorporated into one thing.
OK MC actually, no. equating mexican with indigenous is extremely ignorant. mexican culture was created from spains colony , the exact colony that enslaved, raped, and murdered indigenous people. it’s offensive to insinuate even
My grandmother and I make food as well. Using modern methods ;D, but still I think many of you would find the videos interesting!
What a beautiful bunch of ladies and sisters working to keep their culture strong!
Please make longer videos. These stories deserve more time.
This is legit how my grandma that lives in a village of Guerrero, Mexico cooks.
Now that's a woman, A keeper, the one you marry and never see anyone else. The type of woman you fall in love with and Praise God everyday for Blessings you with. 👍👍
Mis tías en Zacatecas aun usan un metate para repasar la masa, echa de nixtamal, para las tortillas. Las mejores tortillas del mundo. No hay como la comida que hacen las señoras en nuestros humildes ranchos. 🇲🇽❤️🙏🏻 Let’s keep our roots alive!
Please make more videos about this woman. I could watch her and her recipes for hours ❤️ 🇲🇽
This is what makes me I may have been born in America, but it’s videos like this that make me proud to be of a Oaxaqen heritage!
Daniela Echeverria Same here
Grasshopper tacos rule!
👍
Oaxacan
Si!! 😊☺
Been in Tlamanalli, hands down best guacamole I've ever tried.
Amazing video! Thanks guys!
My grandparents are from Allende, Nuevo leon. And my grandma to this day cooks everything by hand and homemade!!💕💕
I want to go to her restaurant..nice
Oh They Were eating good Back in the day LOL This is Beautiful .
Que bella es la cultura indígena. Mi papá es Mixteco y mi mamá viene del la gente nahua. Hay que preservar la cultura indígena.
This channel deserves more attention
¡Viva México!
Viva!!!
That food looks delicious, Gonna have to take me a trip to Mexico 🇲🇽
Wish it was longer it was heart warming listening to her explanation her love for traditional cooking .
What's more delicious that foods cooked with heart, values, histories, and gratitude?
Pre-colonial cultures must be revived.
Simon carnal
It already lives in every Mexican. And while it has been mixed with the old world life styles it could never be exterminated like the conquistadores tried to do and failed.
We need to however value and claim our culture. Otherwise others will claim it as their own. As many are already trying to do.
I agree. Latin American cultures are vibrant and festive but I'd love to see more of the pre-Colonial traditions too. If there are still pre-colonial traditions in Mexico or Latin America, I'd love to see.
"The food is us, and we are the food"
Me: *licks myself*
Also me: .....omg I am delicious
😭😆
This Reminds me of my grandmothers cooking when she was alive. Tlaxcala, Mexico is where she lived in with my cousins and other relatives. She would sometimes speak to me in her old native tongue but I never understood it. She died when I was very young, still think about her to this day.
Seeing that pride in their eyes and knowing they're keeping the traditions alive is so aspiring!
If only I had teleportation powers, I would teleport here with all my heart and soul just to eat these dishes made with Abigail’s heart and soul
... and then hurriedly teleport back because the food is the only reason to visit Mexico...
This is really interesting
Beautiful video, short but powerful. Thank you
Captivating & breathtaking cooking. Food really does unites people.