San Mateo Yucutindoó Memories
In Alba’s kitchen, the tortillas start at 03:00 in the morning, where around 1,200 tortillas are made, later all kinds of tamales are made: green sauce, rajas, party mole and others further.
This kitchen not only feeds his family, but also those people far from home who are looking for a place to buy something that feeds their soul and stomach.
Next to a 200-year-old Macahuite is the kitchen of the Ojeda Salinas family, located in the rancheria “El frijol Yucutindoó”, here Mrs. Minerva fed her husband Inocencio and their 4 children, which will now be the inheritance for her daughter-in-law.
15 years ago, Mr. Norberto built this kitchen for the family that his son Rafael and María would form; along with the metate, molcajete and stoves, it would be the inheritance for the newlyweds, who now have 5 daughters. Nadia, one of them; she remembers the café de olla, the machucadas, the picaditas and the talks while they had lunch before going to school.
In their house they have always had many goats.
Mrs. Luisa Sánchez turns on the griddle at 5:00 a.m. to make 200 tostadas and tortillas in the morning. Her favorite part is going to cut tomatoes and chiles to make a very spicy sauce that she puts on her taco with fresh cheese. This kitchen is located in the center of San Mateo Yucutindoó.
Mrs. Celedonia has more than thirty-two years with her kitchen in the center of San Mateo Yucutindoó, which despite having been relocated, continues with the same adobes that built it. In the center of the kitchen there is a hole that serves as an oven to prepare the goat barbecue, one of the favorite dishes of the Barrios García family.
This is where Thalía learned to put nixtamal from a very young age, to grind, to make tortillas, moles and sauces. It can be said that this place is the origin of everything we are today. There is never a lack of corn, chili peppers and beans that Mr. Valentín grows.
