ArchivesTag : Areponapuchi
The Fascinating Foods and Mexican Cooking of the Copper Canyon Area
Chihuahua foods are a cooking delight and very delicious- and cooking trips are available.
Full StoryEarly 2010 News from Copper Canyon
I have just returned from Copper Canyon- we had a group there for 8 days- a rousing success!
The way we approach our experiences there is to have a rough itinerary and then flex to meet the interests of the group. This make for a vastly different experience than people get with the canned or packaged [...]
Full StoryAround Divisadero Last Week
I was back in Copper Canyon last week with another great photographer. Last time it was Eric and Karen of Trans-Americas Journey and we had a grand time exploring and seeing out of the way places.
This time I took along Chris Whitney of Whitney Landscapes. Chris and his son do somew phenomenal work and I set him [...]
Blue Corn in Copper Canyon
Blue corn…they raise the stuff there and use it often. We enjoy it usually as tortillas and often staight off the wood stove top early in the day. Here in the orchard at Cabanas Diaz in Areponapuchi, Armando is showing us some young ears which we enjoyed as sweet corn a few minutes later with [...]
Full StoryThe New Telocarril at Piedra Volada
An idea that will change the Divisadera area and the environs a great deal has been brewing for awhile…and now it is under construction. A new gondola is being built from the Piedra Volada area down to the big saddle and from there down nearly to the Urique River. Karen Catchpole and Eric Mohl of [...]
Full StoryQuieres mas?
Six am and I am plopped at the kitchen counter at Cabanas Diaz in the remote village of Areponapuchi sipping coffee and watching corpulent old Ophelia grind blue corn hominy. It’s the first step in making the tortillas we will enjoy with breakfast. Methodically she stokes the wood stove with dry mesquite stobs and looks [...]
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