A good reason to enjoy the wonders of nature in this time of parties of love and peace and hope in the near future, is to visit the Botanical Garden and enter the installation of James Turrel ENCOUNTER. It is a luminous experience that you will never forget. Here I share my visions on one of these afternoons. MERRY CHRISTMAS
CULICHI TRADITION. THE FOOD POSTS ON THE PUBLIC ROAD OR CARRETAS.
Black and white photography of A. W. Lohn of the first decade of the twentieth century tells us about the custom of culiches eating on the street and in the vicinity of the market.
They are posts with a canvas roof in the market. It is Calle del Comercio, today Angel Flores (see the indicative plaque near the corner of Don Antonio Vizcaino’s establishment). In the background, the Cathedral and commercial buildings on the west side of the street. There are people of all social class and two children dressed in European style or maybe North American, because I suppose they are the two children of the photographer Lohn: Edward and Fred, the latter was born in Culiacán in 1903. He is a six or seven year old boy so the photo may have been taken in 1910; Lohn lived in Culiacán until 1912.
Hence the tradition of eating in the carts of seafood and tacos of roast beef, carnitas, head, crop and other vines. Traditional dishes such as fried chicken that is eaten today in El Guayabo and El Periodista, Palomar etc. this may be an antecedent; It could also be the traditional dish “El Pollo a la Plaza” that we eat in all the cenadurías and that used to be the food of the market stalls.
I wish all readers a Christmas dinner with these traditional dishes. MERRY CHRISTMAS
Jaime Félix Pico
Delegate of Sinaloa
