This week I started watching Chef’s Table: BBQ, the latest season of Netflix’s Chef’s Table; one of the episodes is about Rosalia Chay Chuc, a Mayan woman that makes food in the traditional Mayan way.

In the episode Rosalia talks about her children and how she feels about them not embracing the Mayan culture, that made me think about how the idea of modernity lures people into rejecting their culture in favour of the culturally homogenization of big cities. I think small towns are incredibly important for the maintenance of cultural traditions that can’t be maintained in a city environment, dishes like cochinita pibil can’t be prepared traditionally in an apartment.

Another thing that is saddening about the rejection of their own culture from the kids of small towns is that being born in a small town full of living traditions leaves you with a responsibility to keep the traditions alive as those traditions are an important part of human experience, also, in a market driven society where everyone can pursue anything, it is only natural that the lesser glamorous activities like, in the context of the Mayan cuisine, making a hole in the earth to cook pork for over 12 hours, or cooking beans for over 5 hours become forgotten even more quickly than they are now.

[music] [bandcamp] Ghost in the Machine! : [95.7 THE WAVE]

An excellent release, nothing groundbreaking but a good album nevertheless.

The 5th song, Dreamin’ is one of the catchiest songs I’ve heard in a while, a must listen.