Traditional Mexican cuisine - ancestral, ongoing community culture, the Michoacán paradigm — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:10[Applause]
3. 0:12Mexican Cuisine comes down to us from
4. 0:14ancient
5. 0:15times its ancestral roots are still the
6. 0:19essence of today's Cuisine and its main
7. 0:22ingredients are still corn beans and
8. 0:25chili
9. 0:27peppers Mexico's generous biodiversity
10. 0:31has generated this great Cuisine with
11. 0:33its varied flavors and endless forms of
12. 0:39preparation a universe of vegetables
13. 0:42bursting with tomatoes cacao avocados
14. 0:45sweet potatoes mushrooms cacti and many
15. 0:48delicious kinds of animal protein chotes
16. 0:52epote squash and Chili Peppers of all
17. 0:56textures and hues
18. 1:01but cooking is more than food from the
19. 1:03earth it is a creative act it is charged
20. 1:08with essential
21. 1:09symbolism it expresses the identity of a
22. 1:13people
23. 1:14[Music]
24. 1:31the First Peoples of meso America
25. 1:33domesticated ma about 8,000 years ago
26. 1:36with a culture based on agriculture they
27. 1:39built the Great civilizations of what is
28. 1:41now Mexico they developed astronomy
29. 1:44literature a complex understanding of
30. 1:47the world and life mathematics and
31. 1:49architecture of universal
32. 1:54value many of these ancient people's
33. 1:57most outstanding achievements are still
34. 1:59current today one of these is the
35. 2:02gastronomical culture they created with
36. 2:04their unique original products and the
37. 2:07way of cooking them
38. 2:08[Music]
39. 2:10collectively traditional Mexican cooking
40. 2:13and the traits of popular culture that
41. 2:15distinguish it are part of a complex
42. 2:18cultural system expressed through
43. 2:20rituals religiosity and Community
44. 2:25Life culinary customs pass down from
45. 2:28generation to generation
46. 2:30becoming one with daily
47. 2:35habits this age-old knowledge is an
48. 2:38essential part of Ceremonies and rights
49. 2:41that ensure Community
50. 2:42[Music]
51. 2:50cohesion because of the symbolic value
52. 2:52of food the indigenous peoples have
53. 2:55always conceived of maiz as the
54. 2:57beginning and end of humanity
55. 3:05The Culinary culture is expressed around
56. 3:07the family Hearth and in public spaces
57. 3:10like plazas markets local diners and
58. 3:14Street
59. 3:15[Music]
60. 3:20stands food is present at birth and at
61. 3:24death at planting and at Harvest
62. 3:31Mexican Cuisine is a Melting Pot of
63. 3:34ancient knowledge and agricultural
64. 3:36products that survive not only in corn
65. 3:39fields in kitchens and on tables but
66. 3:43also in churches and cemeteries in
67. 3:47cradles altars and tombs in prayers and
68. 3:51Indigenous and myso
69. 3:55Customs above all culinary customs are a
70. 3:59fundamental factor for social
71. 4:02cohesion a powerful ingredient of
72. 4:05national
73. 4:06identity a testimony to historical
74. 4:16continuity Mexico's striking natural
75. 4:19diversity makes it the fourth most Mega
76. 4:22diverse country in the
77. 4:23world it ranks among the world's top
78. 4:26three most culturally diverse Nations
79. 4:30both these factors contribute to its
80. 4:33outstanding
81. 4:39Cuisine 1492 was a transcendental moment
82. 4:44when culinary genes from other cultures
83. 4:46Incorporated elements from the entire
84. 4:48known world into Mexico's original
85. 4:52Cuisine but these contributions did not
86. 4:55change the authenticity of the original
87. 4:57cuisine in the communities Nationwide
88. 5:04[Music]
89. 5:06this continuity over time is due to the
90. 5:09everpresent
91. 5:10corn beans and chili
92. 5:15peppers this threesome is cultivated in
93. 5:18AA a field worked
94. 5:21collectively in the shelter of the Mila
95. 5:24grow many kinds of tomatoes squash and
96. 5:2760 more species of foods native to the
97. 5:31region even today the Mila continues to
98. 5:35be a model of self-sustainable
99. 5:37agricultural production to these wise
100. 5:40cultivation practices original culinary
101. 5:43techniques are added plus industrialized
102. 5:47processes imposed by the march of
103. 5:50[Music]
104. 5:53time n Tamal corn cooked in a chalk
105. 5:57solution is the basis for making making
106. 6:00tortillas tamales atle corn beverages po
107. 6:05hon soups and the infinite variety of
108. 6:08flavors and forms of Mexican
109. 6:11Specialties this technique for
110. 6:13processing the corn invented in Mexico
111. 6:16thousands of years ago adds nutrients
112. 6:19and makes it more easily digestible
113. 6:25[Music]
114. 6:29the chili pepper is a national icon and
115. 6:33a fundamental flavor it also AIDS
116. 6:36nutrition because it makes it easier to
117. 6:38digest the proteins in corn and beans
118. 6:41this is why the traditional Mexican diet
119. 6:44has always been complete and
120. 6:48balanced all these ancient authentic
121. 6:51culinary practices survive in many
122. 6:53regions of the country that have their
123. 6:55own ways of cultivating producing and
124. 6:58preparing food
125. 6:59[Music]
126. 7:02the procedures products techniques and
127. 7:05utensils remain practically the same the
128. 7:09way of mixing chili peppers tomatoes
129. 7:12vegetables and spices for making
130. 7:14Salsas the mole sauces with their
131. 7:17sophisticated
132. 7:19combinations the cacao avocados and
133. 7:22other Delights Mexico has given the
134. 7:25[Music]
135. 7:27world this great culinary cultural
136. 7:30heritage must be preserved so the
137. 7:33communities that still treasure it must
138. 7:36be protected communities that are
139. 7:38fragile in the context of global trade
140. 7:41productive monopolies environmental
141. 7:44deterioration impoverishment of rural
142. 7:47areas and the threat to smallscale
143. 7:51agriculture equally at risk are culinary
144. 7:54traditions and the Community Values they
145. 7:56create Central factors that structure
146. 7:59group relations and drive the
147. 8:01development of local
148. 8:07cultures safeguarding traditional
149. 8:10Mexican Cuisine in its cultural context
150. 8:13requires taking energetic action
151. 8:16individually socially and by government
152. 8:19this will be an example for other
153. 8:21regions that want to guarantee the very
154. 8:24survival of large populations and their
155. 8:27surroundings
156. 8:30[Music]
157. 8:58for
158. 9:02these women from mitan communities are
159. 9:05not only Great Cooks but a veritable
160. 9:07model for safeguarding recovering and
161. 9:10promoting traditional cuisine this
162. 9:13experience must be expanded to other
163. 9:15parts of the country to protect the
164. 9:17culinary Heritage of each and every
165. 9:23region the defense of Mexico's
166. 9:25traditional cuisine will be a driving
167. 9:28force for for the future development of
168. 9:31cultural customs
169. 9:33[Music]