Last week I promised a preview to a very special event happening here in March. Well...we're not quite ready for the unveiling yet, so I'll tell you next week instead, and it's worth the wait.
However, something else happened on Tuesday that we residents of San Pancho think is pretty terrific. At 9:00 in the morning in our beautiful refurbished plaza, our new weekly market, Mercado del Sol, began selling its wares.
In the shade of the brick arcade, shoppers wandered from table to tantalizing table.
Brita's organic vegetables were a big draw. I brought home a bag full of crisp clean mixed lettuces -- red leaf, green leaf, and romaine -- and two shiny little eggplants to sauté. There were fennel bulbs, fresh herbs, kale and collards, okra and other fine veggies. At another table across the tile aisle, I bought plump ginger root, bright squash blossoms and a bag of assorted baby squash -- tiny zucchinis and yellow squash and those ones shaped like flying saucers.
Here's Franny stocking up for the next few days.
Want bee pollen? Spirulina? Teas and spices of every variety? How about chile oil and flavored vinegars? You can find them all at Mercado del Sol.
When your shopping bag is brimming with enough vegetables and other things to keep you healthy, you can find a little something for your sweet tooth, too.
Yum.
It is so delightful to know one can wake up on a Tuesday morning and shop with local friends from local friends. I found Eva with her usual smile, cooking up tacos.
I liked the way this woman found a creative way to display her jewelry.
I'll talk with more of the vendors on future Tuesdays and tell you their stories and what they have to offer.
This week, what with all that's going on in our busy pueblito, I only had time to talk at any length with one woman by the name of Rebecca Roth. Rebecca sells dolls made by women in prison.
Before I even knew her story, I was captivated by the dolls, each one hand made, each one a unique individual. The women who craft them are in the Reclusorio Feminil of the Puente Grande prison near Guadalajara. Rebecca got to know these women, and created the doll project, while she herself spent over four years there, accused of a crime of which she was finally exonerated. Now she travels throughout Mexico selling dolls made by current and released inmates. She continues to make dolls herself, too, having made the very first one for the baby girl of a fellow prisoner during her time at Puente Grande.
For more about Rebecca's story, visit her website Original Friends Dolls: The Prison Project. The dolls are also available for purchase through the website, and can be shipped to the USA.
And of course, if you're in our neighborhood on a Tuesday morning, stop by and see the dolls in person, and have a leisurely saunter through the Mercado del Sol.
It's full of surprises.
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