The Spice Markets of Oaxaca
Chiles, chocolate and a grandmother who taught me to buy mole by smell alone.
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Slow journeys, written down before they fade.
I’m Iris Chen, a writer and photographer in Vancouver. Field Notes collects the small, odd and tender things I find on the road: a spice stall at dawn, a rainy night train, a borrowed canoe.
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The Spice Markets of Oaxaca
Chiles, chocolate and a grandmother who taught me to buy mole by smell alone.
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