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Isabel Torrealba

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2018

Writer and anthropologist from Oaxaca, currently living in Brooklyn. Running food tours company: Mexican Culinary Traditions. Other work can be found in Edible Austin, Eater, The Art of Eating, Food52, and the LA Review of Books.
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Julián Isidro’s father, Robustiano Isidro Dominguez, rotates pasillas above a heat source.

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Saving the Prized Chile That Grows Only in Oaxaca’s Mountains

Farmers growing the smoky pepper had no idea chefs were paying top dollar for it.

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