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

Canary Islands

The islands have a cooking of their own that hardly ever leaves them. Mojo pounded in stone, potatoes with salt and cheese from Majorera goats.

Candelaria Pérez with her stone mortar and her granddaughter Yurena in Puntagorda
Old volcanoes and reddish plains around Antigua in Fuerteventura

On La Palma a lot of people left after the volcano. On Fuerteventura goat farms close every year because tourism pays more.

Nayra and Echedey beside the corral of majorera goats in Antigua

Yurena went back to Puntagorda with her grandmother's recipe. Nayra and Echedey milk at dawn, before the goats head out onto the lava fields. Everything that leaves here travels by boat.

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

Who works here

  • Candelaria Pérez with her stone mortar and her granddaughter Yurena in Puntagorda

    Yurena y Candelaria Pérez

    Mojo de Candelaria · Puntagorda

    She went back to La Palma after the volcano and makes her grandmother's mojo.

  • Nayra and Echedey beside the corral of majorera goats in Antigua

    Nayra y Echedey

    Majada de Antigua · Antigua

    A vet and a goatherd who took over Sebastián's goat farm.

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