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Back on La Palma after the volcano, with her grandmother's mortar

Canary pines and almond trees above the Atlantic in Puntagorda, La Palma

Draft. This piece will go to Puntagorda, in the north of La Palma, where Yurena came back after the 2021 volcano and set up a small workshop with her grandmother Candelaria's recipe.

Yurena Pérez walks up a street in Puntagorda carrying a box of mojo jars

It will show how red mojo is made in the stone mortar Candelaria still uses, and why pounding gives a different sauce from grinding.

An abandoned goat farm near Antigua with empty stone corrals

It will end at the table with papas arrugadas, the potatoes mojo is made to go with, and with what it means to stay on an island that so many people have left.

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