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she is starting to make tortillas do you want to try and try to make one tortilla
let's see just like that yes yes and then you know with your palms flat flat slap slap
yes good job uh-oh it's sticking yes but now with your fingers you start to to make
yes spinning and make impression around yes yes
definitely doesn't look as good after 15 tries I have one that almost looks like a tortilla
it's hard I had a hard time other night you can take one tortilla and to make like two
taquitos and you can add a little bit salt on it on it and after you squish
to to close so I take this okay yes a little bit a little bit on it yes now close close
[Laughter]
what she don't even feel nothing nothing that's because she had calluses
delicioso it's like a corn pretzel yeah a little bit salty yeah I kind of like it with
the salt on there it gives it I'm telling you it's basically yeah it's a good flavor
it seems like everywhere we go the corn tastes a little different yeah lowland yeah is more
hot weather but that is more tiny corn bean and in the Highland remember the corn plant
is huge but and here is different texture this one is the local grinder for Mayan families and
here for example they are using this arm is another Stone arm and they are making
friction using your hands yeah and like to make friction like this yes they get up at
5am they go to the market get the stuff for lunch they start to prep the lunch and after
lunch then that's when they do their weaving yeah until what time between five and six pm
wow after they continue to prepare the dinner but some of them they continue after dinner weaving until midnight
this is unique it's tougher for them oh yeah if you guys want a real Mayan
authentic experience you can actually come stay in the home with them eat and sleep
traditional Mayan let's put this on the next trip yeah
welcome to the Chocolate Factory here we make the artisanal chocolate it's a product of the cacao bean
the first process they make the chocolate in the big Factory is come from the tree inside
into this fruit we have the cacao seed with the [...] for example in these pictures this [...]is
very important for the fermentation process and for today's process we'll use the wood boxes
and banana leaves one month move the beans for example one time and the one week and close it
with the banana leaves and the cacao seeds after the [...] and the next process is roasting
the cacao and for that this process we'll use the [...] this one add the seeds and low fire
this process to 10 to 15 minutes is the best for the fire and the next process is peeling the cacao
to separate the cacao bean and the husk this process is by hand one by one with the husk
we choose the make the cacao tea the cacao tea is very rich in vitamin A & C contain the
fiber [......] calcium magnesium is anti-inflammatory in the seeds it is very
rich in antioxidants that help the reduce the cholesterol is the energy food it's good to eat
for example 8 to 10 minutes before the breakfast and for activity or today in the makeup process
it's a grinding the cacao and for that this process we'll use this one add the seeds
we're in the friction for [...] and the paste
in the next process we add some molasses it's the organic sugar these come from the sugar cane for
a 100 gram cacao we add 20 grams molasses and grinding for 10 minutes more together after 10
minutes we add the orange juice and the Frozen the orange juice is for the soften the paste
and the function the natural preservant for three months we have the chocolates to make
to drink the 70 percent dark chocolate this one is for one cup we have for three cups and we have
for six cups and the all chocolate this one all this one is a chocolate bars to eat the 70% with
different flavors and we have with different Liquors for example chocolate with Brandy with
tequila whiskey vodka and rum chocolate here this one this one is a semi-sweet chocolate we
have the chocolate bars to eat we have to make to drink for the sixth cup and for one cup we have
the fertility and shampoo lip balm soap with different products and here the old chocolate
here is a 40% cacao it's like a sweeter chocolate which one are you trying now I think it's the rum
that's interesting okay so we're trying some of the different
chocolates Macadamia I think it's a cranberry but I I picked up a coconut
oh yeah yeah it's not one that I picked it's it's definitely
cranberry it's cranberry it's okay it's good this is coconut
the cacao has such a different taste than what you're used to with American chocolate
even if you go to like Godiva or whatever this is more grainy
and more rich but less sugar which is good and bad I kind of like it better which one
was for uh your favorite so far I like the rum yeah the rum is the best one okay let's
see what you got here April okay so we have Pepian and rice and tomalito yeah
you see a tortilla shell that's really bad looking it's right here it's mine
do you open it or you just eat it with the skin open it yes
oh that's interesting
it's different you put this in the soup you dip it you dip it oh like this like this okay I like this
you can separate it from the corn leaves oh you can okay all right we're gonna try the chicken the
chicken's very good patio chicken yeah yard bird tastes much better when it comes right out the
front yard it's fresh you wouldn't think chicken would taste that much different if it comes out
of somebody's yard but it does regular chicken doesn't have flavor that you purchase at the grocery store
yeah it doesn't have this kind of flavor like you you taste the actual chicken the one thing
I'm kind of surprised about in Guatemalan food is it's got lots of spices in it but it's not spicy
it has flavor it's flavor spice not hot spice yes it's aromatic yeah do you like this pepian better
or the other one they're both different but Don Jose's card above his homemade Pepian was very
good very flavorful and then I like I like the uh cabbage that he had in his that we put in his soup
you want tortilla yeah oh yeah sure I slaved over these tortillas
yeah it took me forever to make a tortilla hard I did it at Cuscun I'll find your tortilla and
show everybody you see it maybe they threw yours out they were like this is garbage
yeah they threw my tortilla out they didn't put it in here they're like we can't serve that yeah
without the help of Selvyn our driver and guide and Professor because he knows
everything about Guatemala he's been there 20 hours a day it seems like we would really log
our days he's been uh Sherpa in our camera gear and carrying April Down Mountain heck
he almost had to carry me down the mountain when I fell down and also he works for the
Heart of Travel which Chelsea has been by far the best tour operator I've worked with.
everything has been amazing in Guatemala. muchas gracias Chelsea and Selvyn! absolutely