Milpa Farming in the Yucatán: Cook It Raw (Part 2)

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In the second edition of Cook it Raw Yucatán, Alessandro Porcelli and a group of chefs explore local milpa farming systems, plant seeds, and advance their conversation about local food culture.
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[@canguian]

Wouldn't be better to show how the locals do it instead of showing how a bunch of hipsters chefs understood it?

[@daniellaminogue6701]

Charles Anguiano Why don't you make a show about that? :)

[@wetguavass]

true.

[@Cheedillow]

Here's what bothers me about the mentality of the chef, they go on this trip and discover all the great traditional foods. But when they try to demonstrate it, they take a completely wrong approach, they westernise it, not in gastronomic sense, but in the way they serve it, small portions, well presented, and ultimately expensive. They take the soul out of it.

[@FrancisBurns]

Cheedillow they went there with the purpose of creating extravagant dishes to sell to easily amazed westerners

[@sleepn_on_me2473]

thats a very interesting thought

[@BlowItXthe0]

I hope munchies compensated these people at the very least.

[@RamiroValencia]

What does flamenco music have to do with Yucatecan Mayan food?

[@Yomomsscknondischet]

Theyre trying to recreate la conquista.

[@FelixTheHouseFreak]

I dont know. This would have been way more interesting if they had let the locals show their cooking as it is. It's some well deserved and needed attention. These guys pretty much ended up taking the local ingredients and using the same concepts they always use to cook. I'm not sure if they really learned a new perspective.

[@atari_rx]

Vice, I hope you can find better and possibly open minded people who wouldn't mind trying new food and cultures. Seeing that one woman scoff, make faces and noises when the lizard was being prepared was disrespectful. I understand seeing an animal being mutilated is not a pretty sight, but at least try to be mindful of your actions and facial expressions especially around people who appreciate the food that is being prepared. You don't have to like the food, but at least be respectful.

[@musingsofajay387]

no that lady is vegetarian lol so its expected for her to do that.. she probably couldnt help it

[@UnlistedInvisibility]

well people are just going to bitch about everything. If she stood outside while the lizards were prepared, disrespectful, unable to stand the scene, disrespectful again. No way of pleasing you guys?

[@canguian]

Agree...I would be more interested to know how they cook it and test it...many people rather eat in McDonald's and have who knows what chemicals

[@LuisitoMusic]

+Charles Anguiano This is like the third video where I see you bitching about the chefs. Alessandro didn't make cook it raw for the ignorant audience of keyboard critics. He made it for the chef's he invites on these journeys. So that they learn about a different culture other then their own; to learn about their cooking techniques and ingredients and expand their culinary knowledge. This isn't about teaching an audience how to cook Iguana or how to cultivate corn and beans. If you want to learn how to prepare iguana use your 21st century way of thinking and google it.

[@canguian]

***** have a life

[@Mpathtic]

I think its so odd how they go to these places and soak up the culture, learn new cuisine and growing habits, just to bring it back to their modern kitchens and make what they learned into the type of conceptual cooking that they claim to want to escape. Either way, I'd eat the iguana and I liked learning about milpas.

[@varghj]

sounds like mexican chistopher walken

[@farax2176]

He does! That's fuckin hilarious!

[@yicholas]

I was coming here to say the same thing!

[@carlocaa]

he is italian

[@raulleonorcarrinho9161]

haha came here to say the same.

[@moegerms]

He's Italian you stupid American fuck.

[@freddylon5215]

It's crazy how many traditional dishes are in this world and yet I'm still hungry

[@BurnShit666]

Reminds me of my grandmas home. Gotta go visit her soon.

[@drivmwempozv4445]

Bad news John, she's dead.

[@ahpadt]

I wish all the Cook It Raw events were filmed. So fascinating.

[@eddiearanda1]

These videos are awesome. Reminds me of when is used to travel to Yucatan as a kid. I hope they try the panuchos, salbultes, timbas and huevos motulenos next.

[@jma950]

Alessandro is a very eloquent speaker, such a trait is so often overlooked, needless to say, more of him please!

[@Frankie0100010]

In case you are wondering what the iguana tastes like, it tastes like chicken, well, at least when prepared in stew.

[@an.unarmed.civilian]

the Yucatani (?) Christopher Walken

[@ChainsawGutsfuck2]

I've heard of milpas in Charles Mann's book "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus". Good to see one!

[@geovanniroca]

You should do part III and visit all the 'taquerias' from the main city, Merida. There are some great places that's been feeding 'yucatecos' for years. Also I can show those places.

[@superknibs]

Allessandro sounds like a spanish Christopher Walken when he talks...

[@moegerms]

He's Italian.....

[@sleepingwithsirens6831]

True

[@noah4463]

Anybody think that guy kinda sounds like Christopher walken? Haha I just couldn't stop hearing it

[@BillyJoe354]

the guy at the beginning sounded like Christopher Walken :P lol

[@Galaxiaking]

So vice cooked for the rich people that just sat there talking about their PowerPoint which relates to culinary culture through art. While the natives, which prepared the pieces for the meal weeks before vice would be getting there, showed them their land, and cooked meals for them.What do they get? Absolutely nothing, probably just a muchas gracias.

[@Metaphix]

lmfao at the bejeweled pet beetle

[@logictd567]

They look so uncomfortable eating that food. Stick to hamburgers, guys.

[@sbarte5033]

nice program, those who haven't traveled to mexico would know that its not just enchiladas and tacos, they have a deep and rich food culture rooted in the individual regions

[@meelo1978]

Great stuff! This is also part of my cultural identity here in the north of Belize. Which in fact, should be your next destination to explore our unique local raw cuisine. Why not?

[@joshs2024]

So interesting. Keep it up Vice!

[@jofetlascano2068]

Wonderful guys I 💘 yucatan.mexico

[@bloodstew666]

that longganisa in the sweet potato looks awesome

[@Mew4U]

I miss my grandma... T.T

[@Knoar]

4:20 Oh hi there, Latin Christopher Walken.

[@colognele]

i really hope they tried ayahuasca there !

[@ivandelgadilloid]

Did this white girl just try to use a fork for some dang tostadas???!!!!!?

[@doctoredable]

Looks like the woman at 7:07 was not pleased with what was being prepared for dinner.

[@saejinasd]

Spanish christopher walken is awesome

[@sheedsshadow]

Fucking love this channel.

[@rickyhernandez5616]

This was amazing

[@hughes40]

Bravo!

[@sagejavier]

Fuck im mexican and never been in yucatan hope this years i go to the rivera !

[@maybertolet1520]

I'm from Yucatan n I miss the food

[@escope1959]

Hacienda Itzincab Camara, Yucatan costs $2000.00 a night. Nice accommodations

[@mentalmetal1]

I'm guessing this guy has pulp fiction on Blu-ray and watches the Christopher walken scene on repeat.

[@imkimchii6318]

cook it raw... guys just think about that. cool imma just go cook something BLOODY RAW CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!

[@jengaairsoft5377]

Watching this with my pet iguanas

[@Zenboy23]

The flamenco guitar spanish music was really distracting, you really didn't had anyone to google "yucatan music" (specially since harp and marimba music are such a rich tradition in the south of mexico?)to musicalize this video? It is as someone put bagpipe irish music on a show about american burgers...

[@monzon529]

Next time you guys go out there invite me i would love to join you guys

[@paulboyda001]

Alessandro Porcelli sounds just like a Hispanic Christopher Walken!

[@mackenziehobbs5561]

Did anyone notice the bejeweled beetle on the table???

[@mattvanelli817]

Is that Mr. Redzepi? Haha.

[@luisalcala5209]

This dude sounds like some sort of European Christopher Walken

[@guitargod1403]

I lost it at 13:25

[@AXOi]

Diffrent countries diffrent food, so glad to live in germany

[@damien5473]

I am the first man to earth to barf and poop at the same time. Ugh the lizard part!

[@98kemik]

imagine if you would see all the cows that are slaughtered in the us every day for profit

[@JGmeow]

The milpas showing system as the three sisters system.

[@vespersaint]

Alessandro Porcelli sounds like a Hispanic Christopher Walken.

[@carlocaa]

he's italian!

[@XboXluva1243]

Where's Part 1? Is it on the main VICE channel?

[@Munchies]

Part 1: munchies.vice.com/videos/the-art-of-mayan-cuisine-in-the-yucatan-cook-it-raw/

[@XboXluva1243]

[@Irinandify]

I fucking love this

[@randomdude8497]

I fucking luv ur pic :-)

[@zzzzzz69]

Why is every commenter here pissed about something? Not the people discussing or critiquing the video, but the people calling each other nasty names.

[@A10ns0Arcad1a]

this is so pretentious, i wish their would have been more local cooking and the inventive ways the locals cook despite not having much , local cooking of Yucatan is beautiful not some deconstructed butchered version of it, i grew up in Mexico and i can honestly say i hate this episode , and not once did they mention that people who still farm by the milpa system are so poor that they really eat meat ,and 90% of what they eat is maize , beans and calabasas in some form or another , this is crap.

[@AlbertChyn]

13:00 What is that? It looks like a bug with a gold chain on it. A delicacy?

[@moegerms]

It's a beetle with jewels glued on it's shell. It's live jewelry worn by the women on their dresses. You're given a bag of food with a stick to feed the bug.

[@hidrarhirium]

+Albert Chyn In Yucatan the people call Makech or Maquech that is a Zopherus chilensis.

[@AlbertChyn]

moegerms Whoa I see. I wonder how long the bug lives. What happens when it dies? Do they keep wearing it?

[@manulboi]

I swear I thought I was listening to Christopher Walken......

[@guitargod1403]

Beautiful eating experience, but boring slide shows those people had the pleasure to get tortured by.

[@MAUTxxx]

Mexican food tastes similar to Indonesian food. Maybe our ancestors are related?

[@MrFreakHeavy]

I have tried it, although I'm not sure it is authentic Indonesian food, and I felt i very different. I don't know how to describe it, but the thing I can point out is the lack of corn. Almost all mexican food has corn... and as mexican, I love corn... everything should be eaten in tacos (just a jest).

[@moegerms]

Not even a little close to being culturally related.

[@petertejero2653]

wacala conla lagartija yo soy de yucatan y no lo como

[@ALEXC215]

es iguana, yo tambien soy de yucatan y no lo he probado

[@petertejero2653]

disen q sabea pollo pero lo destripan i wacala carne negra

[@JARANAYUCATECA]

pedro tejero dicen que esta suave, soy de yucatan nunca la he comido pero dicen que es como el pollo

[@opaz27]

People appreciate your culture because there is vultures who want to exploit it and hope you know it. Viva Mexico and their beautiful native people.

[@johnking2631]

is that tom hanks?!

[@heatherrobertson34]

eating aquatic reptiles like gators or turtles seems tasty and fine to me but dry land reptiles like lizards and snakes creeps me out lol not sure why it just does

[@conniehiggins2173]

Jeremy Charles 😍

[@mikemidimi6878]

juan martinez

[@wetguavass]

Why the Spanish music?

[@MossheartKat]

what the hell is a “xa’ ‘ak” perdon pero estan diciendo ‘shake’

[@chaut9142]

American chiefs always seem to miss the point when it comes to culinary. However, it is practical, But still, always miss the point, flavor-wise.

[@lambchop777]

is it me or does this guy sound like a Mexican Christopher walken

[@rachetCD]

Everyone is saying that

[@madsmobley4108]

Am I the only one that thinks the vast majority of this was in a rich calm peaceful area vs the real people who work the farms , Im from alaska and we have a Native cultural center in anchorage that looks really cool, but then if you actually go to almost any village and everyone basically lives in plywood and sheet iron shacks, and they dont do any of the original things besides a few things like preparing salmon, and being aloud to kill just about whatever they want.

[@UrbanRubble]

The situation of the Native Peoples in what is now Mexico is very different from the situation in what is now the US. The English colonists succeeded in exterminating nearly all of the natives up here, those that survived were put into reservations. The Spanish killed plenty, but rather than full extermination, the indigenous of Mexico more or less mixed with the Spanish colonists over time, and obviously were never rounded up and put into camps. Mexico has a much more diverse and thriving indigenous culture, their people still practice indigenous religions, speak indigenous languages and practice indigenous agriculture. You can't compare it to Alaska or anywhere in the US where the indigenous population was more efficiently suppressed.

[@thodalys]

He is a beautiful man

[@javierr.4380]

he wana be christopher watkin so bad

[@jojojo256000]

great series, but how does munchies fund this level of documentation. surely not with the money generated from the views...

[@daniellaminogue6701]

jojojo256000 Vice-money? :)

[@Yorkoholic]

Alquimistas.

[@BrokenRRT]

WTF is going on at 13:00?

[@aam2457]

This really wasn't as interesting as I'd hoped it'd be A bunch of yuppies travel around and wax poetic talking nonsense. If this was presented the same was as something like Townsend, clearly showing the recipe and history, or was a straight-up docu with actual historians who understand what they're talking about, I'd have enjoyed it more.

[@bball9407]

That part with that lizard ruined it for me... lol

[@maxsanchez847]

WHY!! WHY! SPANSH MUSIC?????

[@maxsanchez847]

dont be ........ the spanish music is from spain!!! tis is not MEXICAN MUSIC..

[@Yomomsscknondischet]

@312vandal fck off loser

[@CarlosCuevas-xi1qq]

Que hasquerozo comer iguana eso Es un hasco, las iguanas estan feas paresen serpientes con cuatro patas que horror.........

[@rootbeer4888]

I want like this but the hipster nonsense is too ever-present.

[@raphaelsworld727]

what the fuck, if they are only eating the tales of the iguana, then why dont they just go out and cut of the tales iguana's tales grow back, so why dont they go out find iguanas and cut of there tales and leave the iguanas, like i said there tales grow back the igaunas would be fine

[@BullShitThat]

They eat both the legs and tails of iguana's... so there's no sparing them

[@carlocaa]

actually the only part of the "tolok" (because it's not an iguana) that we did not serve, was the tail, the legs are the edible parts, everything else goes to waste...

[@98kemik]

bro shut up Americans kill who knows how many cows just so you guys could be fat look in your own home before you judge maybe seeing the mass slaughter of cows for profit will cause you to sprak up i have seen my animals slaughtered its not pretty but its part of another culture thats not yours stop trying to police the world fat americans

[@Munchies]

***** and a group of chefs travel to Yucatán to discover local food traditions and ingredients from cooking iguanas to the ancient art of farming Milpa. #Munchies #Vice #CookItRaw Check out part 1 here: munchies.vice.com/videos/the-art-of-mayan-cuisine-in-the-yucatan-cook-it-raw/

[@Metaphix]

+Munchies lmfao at the bejeweled pet beetle

[@domingoguerrero3357]

Culture vultures

[@kevinblack3164]

So pretentious

[@CuteCatFaith]

Rubbish.

[@Sendmetothesky]

lol

[@siy8230]

Woof.

[@warrenrice794]

your fat

[@CuteCatFaith]

warren rice "you're"

[@CuteCatFaith]

Xavier Toussaint I knew this would be a provocative post. Really, I applaud their ancient, correct methods but I've been in the Yucatan, long ago, and the food -- and the life -- was terrible.

[@geovanniroca]

You should do part III and visit all the 'taquerias' from the main city, Merida. There are some great places that's been feeding 'yucatecos' for years. Also I can show those places.