OAXACA, Mexico -- Michelangelo had fine Italian marble, carefully selected from the town of Carrara. Here, they have radishes, carefully selected from the garden. But who is to say that the art of the ...
“I feel so proud of being part of something so traditionally Oaxacan,” Daniel Rojas tells me as I enter a dimly lit room rich with the earthy smell of radishes. They are preparing for a radish-carving ...
As Christmas draws near in the Mexican city of Oaxaca, artisans and amateurs compete to create the most striking carved radish in town. While carving pumpkins is a well-known Halloween tradition, in ...
A 2010 entry in the contest yaxchibonam via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Each December 23, the bracing peppery fragrance of thousands of radishes fills the air at the zócalo in Oaxaca, Mexico, as ...
From flowers and birds to even furniture, these five aesthetic fruit and vegetable carvings take food presentation to the next level. 1. Orange and berry flower baskets. These orange and berry flower ...