Feasts - Mexico 1/6

Feasts - Mexico Part 1

Series in which food writer and presenter Stefan Gates immerses himself in some of the most extraordinary feasts and festivals on earth. By joining ordinary people in these strange and wonderful distillations of their culture and beliefs, he hopes to gain a revelatory insight into how the world thinks and feels.

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

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Feasts
• Mexico
• Documentary

[pegasometal89]

goo very good ^^ haha mexico is the best.

[sadotfabila]

Great Documental¡¡

[shabab250]

Mr. Stefan Gates, you have to go to Bangladesh for Ramadan. It is the month of fasting, but ironically in this month there is a feeling of festivity out there; range of different food....the iftar market (iftar is the meal used to break fast) in Old Dhaka (chock bazar) is a must see!

[YaoiAngel00]

Its Shilo!!

[SuperKare123]

our culture is amazing, i love mexico.

[raulsaenz]

the family visited is not upper middle class, but only middle class... the dad is an insurance broker thats not a good job,,, plus the house and style of everything in general looks like middle class, not upper middle....

[educortazarc]

ni me hubiera imaginado que de ahi venian las fiestas de quinceañeras

[2spoonsmaloy]

thank you so much, this was my favourite eppisode-so interesting!

[Abram2012]

¿ Dónde consigo esta serie en español aunque sea subtitulada ? GRACIAS

[JESUSISLORDAMEN]

Amazing, God blessing Mexico

[MiradaNostalgica]

Buen trabajo, muy interesante!