The Crafts

Reference explanations of the crafts behind our experiences: barro negro, mezcal, talavera and Barragán’s colour.

Everyone photographs the pink wall. Very few notice that the room behind it has no visible light source, which is the actual trick…

The name is protected. The blue-and-white plate in the market almost certainly is not the thing the protection covers.…

The smoke is not a flavouring. It is a consequence of cooking agave in a hole in the ground, and it is the single fact that explai…

It is not painted, not glazed, and not from anywhere else. Almost everything sold under the name outside Oaxaca is something else …