Oaxaca, land of visionaries, enlightened, artists, dreamers and poets. The philosopher Nietzsche wanted to live in Oaxaca. The French surrealist André Mandiargues Pieyre dreamed of, having loved women of Tehuantepec, a small female angel who appeared to him wrapped in a shining armor on a field of lilies. John Lennon visited Huautla the high peaks of the mountains of the mushrooms that connect with the divine and caverns that reach the center of the Earth. Benito Juarez was born in Guelatao, Ixtlan, Oaxaca, on March 21, 1806 and Porfirio Diaz, who was Governor of the State, asked every day to his wife, Doña Carmelita, in exile in Paris, which was new to Oaxaca, how was possible to live without light and sky of Oaxaca, but the holidays and markets of Oaxaca, Oaxaca without food. In Forest Avenue, in Paris, Don Porfirio detested French food and missed wealth, imagination, variety and poetics of Oaxacan cuisine. Oaxaca is the land of the seven moles, fresh cheese, meats cooked underground, the most delicious tamales from Mexico, most incredible sweets, chocolate atole, coffee pot, yellow bread and all kinds of imagined and imaginable corn. Anthropologist Kent Flannery suggests it may be the Valley of Oaxaca the first place in America where took place the domestication and cultivation of maize. The story goes that Oaxacan cuisine can only be explained from the crossbreeding of native indigenous traditions, the sumptuousness of the tables Aztecs, the colonial baroque, a complex technique and the addition of an essential ingredient that is becoming rare in the rest of the cuisines of the world: time. Oaxaca's cuisine is a pleasure and an art, an exercise effort and patient, always attentive to ritual, to the requirements of good food, which are tradition, imagination and good raw materials. Oaxacans have it all in abundance. A service of a prodigious and fertile nature were added, for centuries, the sumptuousness of Mexican cuisine and exaggerations colonial baroque. The result is an internationally renowned culinary prodigy.