Summary Beginning of the journey in the desert of Baja California: Ismaël and Rodrigo are on a horseback riding through the cactus of the desert and meet a French couple; Jean-Christophe Arbonne and Marjorie Benneton who manage a room for tourists.In La Paz Rodrigo , a marine biologist and Ismaël take a boat, they go near the island of Espiritu Santo (a volcanic island and an Unesco world heritage site) and are snorkeling among the California sea lions.After this excursion they eat clams in a restaurant in La Paz.The next day Ismaël goes with Jean-Christophe in the desert to look for sour pitayas and later they have supper in the house of Jean-Christophe and Marjorie: beef empanadas and beef burrito with a tomato and chili sauce.In Puebla Ismaël meet Noemi Merab Ensisco Meza in a candies shop (there are many candies shops in this town): they go to the gallery of potteries and see the pottery workshop.Later they travel to San Pedro de Choluca: they visit the church build upon an Aztec pyramid: from there they can see the Popocatepetl volcano and Noemi tells the Aztec legend about this volcano.Then they go to the market where they buy "chile Mulato", plantain bananas.Ismaël meets then Doña Catalina, Noemi' mother who will prepare the mole poblano: a sauce prepared with peanuts, almonds, the chili, tomatoes, garlic and onions.As a tradition a group of musicians has arrived at the house (the food is better when prepared with the sound of music) and Ismaël enjoys an excellent mole poblano.Now Ismaël is in Mexico City, he meets Fernando Martinez Zavala, owner of the "Yuban" restaurant: on the Zocalo they can see how people receive the smoke of herbs as a cleansing ritual, they see also traditional Aztec dances, a group of men and woman practices aerobics and they take part to the aerobics.Fernando has a surprise for Ismaël: the go to a market and visit a shop selling insects: they eat two types of insects.Finally Fernando prepares for Ismaël squid with a sauce of corn and tomatoes and a topping ant's eggs. Besides we can see a reporting about Mexican food: Rocio Vazquez, a culinary guide shows to the tourists the best street foods of Mexico City (tacos for example).In San José de Cabo the chef Enrique Silva shows to his guests his garden and then the guests prepares with him dishes with fresh vegetables. We visit also the Sea of Cortez; there we meet Juan Higuera , a fisherman who takes care for the environment and Thierry Lannoy , a diving coach who leads the tourists to dive among a shoal of fishes. Later we visit Todos Santos where Elizabeth Ibarra has a farm and grows strawberries, green beans and herbs and where Henry Morgan, an American Citizen lives now and paints the landscapes of this place.There is also an interesting zoom about the mezcal, a beverage made with agave : Carlos Moreno, a barman explains to his students the different types of mezcal and they taste this beverage: in the countryside Adriano and Lucio , two agave farmers harvest the agave and show how they distillate into mezcal.And last visit,the "Central de Abasto" a huge center in Mexico City where about 90.000 people are working receiving agricultural products from all Mexico and also selling them to wholesalers and restaurants: we meet there Ernesto Oswaldo Oliva Rica , owner of the restaurant "Lorea" who shows the huitlacoche, a fungus which grows in the corncobs and it's part of the traditional Mexican food.

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