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Pati's Mexican Table
Tradition and Innovation
Season 10
Episode 1006
Pati meets chef and historian Maru Toledo who is working to preserve and pass on some of Jalisco’s most important regional recipes. In Hacienda Romo, she looks at the influence of hacienda culture and meets a family that built their legacy on tequila and agave, but are now using an entirely new crop, blueberries, to create more jobs and opportunities for workers, specifically women.
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Pati rides a cable car and builds a bamboo bike to see how urban design is reshaping Mexico City.
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Pati visits Xochimilco’s canals and chinampas, meeting locals working to protect the axolotl.
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Pati dives into Mexico City's creativity, from giant Day of the Dead art to delicate papel picado.
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Pati learns the ancient history of Mexico City and tours the largest market in the world.
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Pati discovers Yucatán’s “league of their own” when she meets the Amazonas softball team.
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Pati tries different versions of Yucatán’s signature smoked meat Carne Ahumada in Temozón.
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Pati experiences the legacy of Yucatán’s henequén industry and a famous egg dish in Motul.
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Pati visits Chef Wilson Alonzo in his hometown of Halachó to prepare Cochinita Pibil.
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Pati explores the vibrant streets of Yucatán’s capital, Mérida, in search of its flavors.