Chocolate de Agua

Chocolate is as important to Oaxaca as mole. You can’t have one without the other. Chocolate is a way of life, and it is something you drink every single day because it traditionally uses water instead of milk. During the Day of the Dead celebrations, chocolate is on every single altar in Oaxaca. In my mom’s hometown of Mitla, when somebody dies, it is tradition to bring their surviving family cacao beans at the wake as an offering. When you go to a wedding or baptism, the first thing they