How 60,000 tamales are made for The Junta in Mexico
- last year
Every year, communities across Milpa Alta, Mexico, come together to cook a massive feast known as the junta.
The meal is cooked by 500 volunteers, who work around the clock making over 3,000 kilograms of tamales, mole, and rice.
The feast is given out to anyone who offers to help fund and aid the community's annual pilgrimage to the Santuario de Chalma, which is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Mexico.
Before the two-day pilgrimage in January, another feast is organized in December to thank everyone who's already donated.
We visited Milpa Alta to see how the volunteers prepare the junta feast in such big batches.
The meal is cooked by 500 volunteers, who work around the clock making over 3,000 kilograms of tamales, mole, and rice.
The feast is given out to anyone who offers to help fund and aid the community's annual pilgrimage to the Santuario de Chalma, which is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Mexico.
Before the two-day pilgrimage in January, another feast is organized in December to thank everyone who's already donated.
We visited Milpa Alta to see how the volunteers prepare the junta feast in such big batches.