Nanches, a sweet fruit snack.
Hierbas y calabasas
Hierbas medicinales
Gorditas de Nata. This stand is not present all the time. Possibly it's a fiesta-related thing.
Making Gorditas de Nata, a wafer-like confection or pastry.
A Fruitarian's Paradise
Gaspachos Morelianos y otras golosinas de frutas.
No charge for a smile.
Mango on a stick? Fresas con crema? Piña? Hard choice.
On the other side of the pasillo, another fruit lover's dream.
March of the Fruit Cups
These are a craft, if not an art form.
Shredded raw vegetables for the health conscious.
Fresas con crema en frente, gaspachos Morelianos en la segunda fila, frutas con yoghurt en la tercera, jugo de naranja en la cuarta. Bolsillas de frutas cortadas a la izquierda.
I'm starting to feel dizzy...
I need to stop here more often. (There is no seating, nor room for it.)
At the rear, a cure for meloncholy.
Fruit-A-Rama
Dulces Arco-Iris. "Pufitos" de sabores, por ejemplo, de queso, Ranchero, chilito. I don't eat these, but they should make good insulation.
Dulces Arco-Iris. Churritos, or a sort of Mexican "pretzel", often eaten splashed with salsa.
La Dulcería Arco-Iris, una gruta encantada para niños.
Dulces Arco-Iris. Paletas dulces as decorative wall hangings.
Dulces Arco-Iris. Tapestries of dulces on the walls.
Dulces Arco-Iris. The entrance is well protected by a bunker of pufitos and other snacks.
Hugo, Maestro Carnicero at la Carnicería La Norteña
What you see is what you get. The meat is very fresh, with the exception of the aged cecina (salted beef "jerky" and the chorizos (spicy pork sausage).
The canaries advertised (left) are for pets, not for human consumption.
Francisco steels his knife. Carnicería La Norteña's staff are always full of jokes and laughter.
"Frank", who laughingly claims to be part Asian, hones his knives under the cortina de chorizo.
Hang 'em high
Maíz blanco. To my surprise, I know of only one principal stand for corn in the mercado, with the exception of women who sell a few ears of maíz criollo.
Maíz blanco
Indigenous maíz criollo and calabacitas; hojas de maíz for wrapping corundas, (right).
Uchepos (Sweet corn tamales)
Arturo and his mother, Juana Padilla have a small vegetable stand, and specialize in hard-to-find vegetables. For example, eggplant, black radish, ginger root, watercress, and daikon. The best day for the specialty vegetables is Thursday.
Arturo Padilla
"La Flor" en Invierno. Note the tower of vegetable crates. They always seem to be in that corner.
'Una Flor del Mercado". This lovely young woman is present 5 or 6 days a week, selling a small selection of vegetables grown on her familes' farm
La Flor en Blanca
Beauty among the jícamas
Nones. Described as not sweet, but "amarga, poco dulce y buena para diabéticos."
Open air dulces. I like the Coke Bottle candies
Fruits, Nuts and Sweetmeats.
This is better than the candy counter at the movies when I was a kid. (1940s and '50s)
Maíz Criollo, Huitlacoche, y Calabacitas
Elotes de colores
Moronga: Something like blood pudding.
Chicharrones
Carnicería La Indita
¡Naranjas, 4 kilos por 10 pesos!
Cabbages are Kings in the Pátzcuaro Mercado. El Viejo Rey Col.
Cauliflowers are Snow Princesses
Sra. Castillejo shows a big cabbage.
Gnarled roots of ??
Cabbages mounded high.
Los Principes de Berenjana, at the vegetable stand of Los Padilla.
Nabo Largo (Daikon), at the stand of los Padilla. $8 pesos each. I turned two of these into Radish Kimchi.
Colitas de Bruselas are often available at the stand of los Padilla.
