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MO39
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
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Location: El ombligo de la Rep�blica Mexicana
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 Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject: Artesan�as from Michoac�n in the D.F. |
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| A few days ago I was at the Galer�as shopping mall here in the D.F. (just north of my neighborhood near El Angel in Colonia Cuauht�moc) and stumbled across a temporary crafts market in the outside plaza. There's a sizeable group of artisans who've come up from Michoac�n and set up shop (including a small restaurant featuring local delicacies and coffee) there. The prices seem good and the atmosphere is relaxed. Here's a chance to buy artesan�as directly from the people who make them, without giving most of the profit to middlemen (and women)! |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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That plaza is a great spot for an ever-changing array of events featuring vendors from around the country. Twice a year they put on a massive fair...I get my rompope from a Jalisco vendor who's there every time.
Is it only Michoacan featured right now? |
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MO39
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
Is it only Michoacan featured right now? |
Yes, only Michoac�n. I forgot to mention that they'll be there till the 21st of this month. |
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Phil_K
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
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Location: A World of my Own
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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Here's a chance to buy artesan�as directly from the people who make them, without giving most of the profit to middlemen (and women)!
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It's incredible the low price these people sell at considering the amount of work involved! See the skill in the black clay pots from Oaxaca, and I've picked up large ones right there in the place they're made for $100, and pesitos for small ones. I suppose it's a case of needs must. I was exporting Lupita figurines from Tonal�, Jalisco a few years ago, buying them at $150. They sell here in DF in the Cuidadela for $450. Dealing with these rural artesans is difficult as they are happy with what they have and have no ambitions to expand their skills into big business.
I heard a of a tourist in Peru ask a man making crafts,
"How much?".
(for example) "$10" was the reply.
"And if I buy 50?".
"$20".
"How can that be?"
"Well, it would be much more work for me, wouldn't it? So, I have to charge more!"  |
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geaaronson
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:27 pm Post subject: restaurant |
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I too went to the Galerias this past weekend and will not return to that little Michoacan restaurant. The waiter sent me a bill for 90 pesos for a chicken drumstick, frijoles, beans and a sprig of lettuce. When I got indignant and told him I had paid him only 45 pesos the day before for the same he sheepishly accepted the money. Only afterwards I realized that the first meal had also come with fruit juice.
Never again. Stay with the artesenias and haggle hard. |
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