Stock photography picture of At the La Merced market in Mexico City a woman cleans cactus pads nopales of their barbs.

AY2N1G - Licenced Caption At the La Merced market in Mexico City a woman cleans cactus pads nopales of their barbs. Description Fortino Rojas is the chef at the restaurant Chon in downtown Mexico City He prepares prehispanic indigenous dishes which include crocodile meat wild boar frogs ant larva grasshoppers and cactus worms among other exotic ingredients Every morning he makes the rounds at two markets to buy the makings that his recipes require Mr Rojas buying fresh produce at the La Merced market A woman cleans cactus pads nopales of their barbs Keywords Historic, Center, Latin, America, Mexico, City, business, buyer, chef, city, commerce, consumer, cook, cuisine, culinary, dining, eat, edible, ethnic, food, fresh, historic, indigenous, informal, ingredients, market, menu, natural, neighborhood, popular, restaurant, resources, sell, supply, trade, tradition, traditional, urban, work, vegetable, seller, cactus, green, merchant, morning, retail, senior, service, stands, woman, working