i got invited to cook cinco de mayo dinner in puebla, in puebla city. downtown puebla, if you walk around, you can see the colonialism. we dedicated a whole day to go visit this family of a tlachiquero. and a tlachiquero is someone that preserves the art of making pulque. pulque is a fermented agave drink. alberto is from a family of tlachiqueros, and he takes it incredibly serious. i'm trying to figure out how to get alberto's pulque at el jardin. it would be a crime to not have pulque becau then that's not painting the full picture of everything thate have. we go on this hike with alberto to go siphon the aguamiel from the different agaves he has. agaves need to grow years-- eight years--to get a really good piÑa. if you start picking them when they're this big, you're just killing your land. he's showing us this process that he goes through of siphoning it. when he approaches t agave that he is going to, li, cut into, he just goes silent, and he touches it at the heart, and he just closes his eyes. you know whatever that connection is happening to him

one of the perceived is one of the best in the world approaches the city of puebla they face. tag mexican force not even led by a music naziers at august. he's a lawyer turned general right and the mexicans defeat the french and so that's all background. right eventually, of course the french enter mexico city, what else is chased first up into the sort of northern tier mexican states and the borderlands. so by 1865 right a lot of people in the united states have been saying what about the monroe doctrine? right and lincoln's response is not unfair in one sense or one word at a time for a little preoccupied. yeah, you know we gotta defeat this confederate me first this year first we need to take care of it. oh, right. yeah and francis preston blair has even gone so far as to meet with jefferson davis and say hey, why don't you in the confederates? just go deal with the french problem problem and then you could become. king of mexico whatever the case may be. oh for that, right? yeah. we're not gonna do that. so my -- in other words, sorry, that's long background folks right so