{"id":40155,"date":"2020-03-15T19:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=40155"},"modified":"2020-03-15T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T22:58:00","slug":"saturday-afternoon-at-coyotepec-bonus-evening-taco-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/saturday-afternoon-at-coyotepec-bonus-evening-taco-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Afternoon at Coyotepec (Bonus Evening Taco Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Post 21 of 189. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

Our final stop was Coyotepec.<\/p>\n

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Coyotepec is known for its black clay pottery. Again, something I’ve seen but never appreciated.<\/p>\n

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We got a really great demonstration of how a typical water jug is made. I mean, he started from a lump of clay and went right up to showing us how the high polish is achieved using a quartz stone. It was incredible to see him use water and leather tools to shape the container, including the iconic mouth of the jug. Unfortunately, the room was packed and I never managed to for long get a clear view, so I don’t have as many photos as I wish I had showing the process. I felt bad for the English speakers there as this was only in Spanish.<\/p>\n

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Once the clay is sculpted, it is polished with a piece of quartz. That’s all that is necessary to achieve the high shine — there’s no sealant. The black colour is achieved by firing the pieces only 10 hours at a low temperature. These are the decorative pieces that are fragile and porous. The tools of daily life, like cookware, are fired for about 12 hours at a much higher temperature. They turn out dark grey and are much less fragile and not porous.<\/p>\n

There was a huge gallery of pieces, from vases to little animal figures. I couldn’t believe how affordable everything seemed to be.<\/p>\n

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I saw this striking piece and thought that it would look great as a pencil holder on my desk. Look at the detail of that scallop pattern! This was only 100 pesos, to give you an idea of how affordable it was to shop there and support local artisans.<\/p>\n

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We arrived back at the Z\u00f3calo right on time at 6PM. I went straight home to shower and get back to work. Around 8:00, I ventured out in search of tacos. Unfortunately, the stand by the apartment was only just setting up. I went “around the block” and found a restaurant… just around the corner from me. I’ll be glad to know it’s there tomorrow night!<\/p>\n

Well, this was a first — finding myself at a place with all the… unusual taco fillings, like snout, heart, and stomach. I’m not that adventurous yet, so I decided to try cabeza (head) and chamorro (described as being part of the leg) — both of pig.<\/p>\n

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I’d never had tacos al vapor (steamed) before and am\u00a0a fan! The rather gristly and fatty meat was offset by a good schmear of guacamole, with onions and cilantro. I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to dip my tacos in salsa or open them up and add sauce, so I tried both ways and preferred the latter. I’m now convinced there is no such thing as anything but very hot salsa in Oaxaca!<\/p>\n

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Four tacos, a mango water, and a beer (they had beer, yay!) came to only 101 pesos, a perfect end to my night. I found ice cream at the store across the street and came in to read (work) for a few hours before I passed out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Post 21 of 189. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr!) Our final stop was Coyotepec. Coyotepec is known for its black clay pottery. Again, something I’ve seen but never appreciated. We got a really great demonstration of how a typical water jug is made. I mean, he started from a lump of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40155"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40261,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40155\/revisions\/40261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}