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 that w 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. soe's showing us this process that he goes through of siphoning it. when he approaches the 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

puebla, mexico is one of the, i think, the most beautiful cities on the continent, i haven't been thena couple of decades. but it is a wonderful place. he is occupying puebla in may, on may 15th and 1847. and, here is the way the army works in those days. if you sign up, if you signed up as a volunteer, a long term enlistments use about six months, which is barely enough time even to train. interrupted, like the idea was that virtuous men would sign up for military and wartime, but you wouldn't have a large standing army when it's not wartime because a large number of men under arms is not only expensive, which grows the size of the central government, it increases its power, and authority, and strength, and likelihood that it will be using, but also, you wouldn't have those under arms because armies are an republican places. you have to take orders, someone else is telling you when they get, up what to do all the time. the americans prior to the 20th century, they bristles of that sort of thing. the idea was, in wartime, you'd volunteered a virtuous defensive home and heart and there