Salsa: Un poema para cocinar/ A Cooking Poem

In this bilingual cooking poem, a boy prepares salsa alongside his sister. They use tomatoes, garlic, cilantro, chiles, lime, salt, and onion, crushing the ingredients with a molcajete in an ancestral practice. The kitchen becomes an imagined orchestra, giving the food musical roles. Music and dancing precede a family meal of tortillas and salsa. The artwork evokes pre-Columbian Mixtec codices.