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How One Chef Is Fighting To Preserve A Cooking Tool As Old As Civilization Itself | Still Standing
How One Chef Is Fighting To Preserve A Cooking Tool As Old As Civilization Itself | Still Standing
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this is an ancient cooking tool called a
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Metate
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women in Mexico have been using it for
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over 7 000 years to prepare traditional
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dishes
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Evangelina Aquino Louise spends hours
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grinding chilies and herbs for just one
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batch of mole
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mole is a thick Rich sauce that comes in
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many variations contains dozens of
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ingredients and can take days to cook
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it's also one of the most popular dishes
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in Ivan Helena's restaurant La Cocina
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Nana Vida
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today she's preparing a rare kind of
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mole called chichilo but it's not on the
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menu because she only makes it for
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people who are in mourning
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numbers
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Evangelina has dedicated her life to
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preserving these kinds of traditions and
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methods
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but over the years she's watched cook
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swap meet that days for blenders it even
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turned to packaged sauces from the
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supermarket
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we visited Oaxaca known as the land of
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the seven moles to see how the ancient
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ways of preparing this classic Mexican
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dish are still standing
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Ivan Helena buys all ingredients fresh
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at a local market
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buenos dias
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o negro
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ancho chiles are kind of dried poblano
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pepper that have a smoky flavor
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Ed oregano
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hasta luego
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back at her restaurant Evangelina preps
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the onions garlic and sesame for
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roasting
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she's part of the zapotec indigenous
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group that's lived in the Oaxaca Valley
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for thousands of years
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when someone dies family usually prepare
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chichilo together Evangelina made this
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batch especially for us to be able to
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show the whole process
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she puts the meat to boil in a handmade
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pot because the beef will take the
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longest to cook
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in the state of Oaxaca there are seven
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types of mole
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and every family has their own variation
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on the recipes
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is
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the ingredients on a clay Comal a smooth
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griddle to bring out the Smoky flavors
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the ancho chiles go first on high heat
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foreign
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when they get the perfect roast she
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soaks them for about 30 minutes to
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rehydrate and soften them
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Evangelina wastes no time she Rose
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everything quickly since this mole has
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to be made faster than other kinds to
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make it in time for a wake
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the matate has been in evangelina's
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family for 46 years
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these grinding stones are carved whole
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out of a quarry and they can weigh more
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than 50 kilos
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practices
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some commercial chefs have switched to
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blenders to make the process faster
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but Evangelina says that hand crushing
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the ingredients makes the paste smoother
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and helps bring out intense flavors from
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the spices
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Qatar
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no
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this is the most physically taxing step
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and it can take two hours just to grind
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the ingredients
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yes
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indigenous groups in mesoamerica have
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used the matate to make mole since the
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pre-hispanic time
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it's believed to have originated either
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here in Oaxaca or just to the North in
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what's now known as the state of Puebla
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the Spanish arrived in the 15th century
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and people started mixing indigenous
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ingredients like the native chilies with
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other Foods the Spanish brought
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today's mole is a fusion of pre-hispanic
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and European cuisines
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but the authentic way of making it has
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dwindled in popularity
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pre-made mole paste came on the market
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in the 1940s
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blenders became popular in the decades
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that followed and they eventually
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replaced the matate altogether
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is
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traditional mole still beats out the
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kind made in a blender
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Familia
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lard is one of the final ingredients she
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adds she melted into a pot and adds a
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ground paste to fry
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then beef broth and corn dough to make
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the mole thicker
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she stirs until the sauce is the perfect
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consistency
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Fiesta moles that are served at
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celebrations like one called Colorado
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have brighter and sweeter and some even
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say happier tastes
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but this is a funeral mole so it has a
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more subdued and muted taste
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Ivan Helena's grandmother taught her how
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to cook mole when she was just seven
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years old
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at 20 she learned how to make chichilo
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mole from the women in her community
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is
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the companionism
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at first making chichila mole was a
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heavy task for van halena
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because it reminded her of loss
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but when she realized she had a chance
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to preserve and share her culinary
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knowledge I took on a new meaning
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traditional
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is
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in 2017 she registered the brand
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nanavida named after her grandmother
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the exports from mole as well as
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chocolate to the U.S and sells them
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online
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and evangelina's work is getting noticed
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this year her chichilomule won the award
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for the best ceremonial dish and another
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for best decoration at a traditional
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food festival in Oaxaca
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a restaurant is open for tourist groups
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and locals who want to eat the
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traditional food
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is important
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she hopes her children will fall in love
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with cooking the same way she has
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and if they do they have her recipe
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and of course her matate is
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foreign
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