Feasts - s01e03 - Mexico (3rd June 2009) [PDTV (Xvid)]

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Feasts - Mexico

Wednesday, 3rd June 2009


9pm to 10pm


BBC4


Part 3 of 3

Food writer and presenter of Cooking In The Danger Zone, Stefan Gates, immerses himself in some of the more

extraordinary feasts and festivals out there. By joining ordinary people in these distillations of their culture and

beliefs, he hopes to gain an insight into how the world thinks and feels.

Stefan goes on a wild emotional and spiritual rollercoaster ride, starting with a teenage girl's quinceaneras

coming-of-age ceremony and ending with the Day of the Dead, a cacophonous cross-cultural festival of the senses during

which Mexicans truly believe that their loved ones come back from the dead for three days every year to spend the day

with them.

In Oaxaca, he is dressed up as a dead woman and made to dance like a lunatic at the head of a procession as it makes

its way through town. He is turned into an emotional wreck at the moment the dead return, bursting into tears as Dias de

los Muertos makes him experience grief and loss for the first time.

But then in the next breath, the family Stefan is living with teach him to celebrate and laugh at death. They turn his

views on their head, allowing him to embrace and conquer his fear of death through an extraordinary sensual onslaught of

food, flowers, songs and smells. The sight of the graveyards overflowing with flowers and mescal-drinking revellers is a

truly life-changing experience.



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