Rosalía Chay is one of the few chefs in Mexico who still cooks using an underground oven called a pib to make cochinita pibil. Maya people in the Yucatán Peninsula have prepared it this way since at least 400 AD. But people have abandoned these traditions – swapping pibs for modern stoves.

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00:00 Introduction
01:09 History Of Maya Culture
01:51 Gathering And Grinding Ingredients
03:00 Marinating Meat
03:51 Building A Pib
05:47 Influence Of Spanish Colonization
06:44 Making Tortillas
08:06 Preserving Traditional Dishes
10:23 Netflix Brings New Customers
12:24 Credits


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