Peppers and the local palmera chillies from the village gardens are dried in the sun.
Candelaria Pérez is eighty-one and has made mojo all her life in Puntagorda, in the north-west of La Palma. She pounds it in a stone mortar that was her mother's. She made it for the family and for the fiestas.
Her granddaughter Yurena is thirty-four and was working in Tenerife. After the 2021 volcano she came back to the island to help and never left. She set up a small workshop with her grandmother's recipe.
Yurena says half the people who left La Palma will not come back. She did. Every jar opened abroad is one more reason for the village not to be left to the tourists.
