Every Monday we go to Cancun where most of our suppliers are selling their wares. It's here where we do our printing of cook booklets, silk screening of our souveniir aprons and of course where we buy the bulk of our fresh stuff (meat, fish, poultry, fruits and veg...) The truck is full to overflowing as we pull up to the cooking school that night.
Today we picked up 65 of our silk screened souvenir aprons from the printer. Funny thing.. they were still printing when we got there so we captured a couple of moments on digital! I nudged my way into the printer's domain as he was moving 5 wooden frames - all mounted on a circular roundabout, and each one had a different colour of paint in it, that he scraped on fastidiously through his screen. After the paint was applied, they got placed onto a conveyor belt heading to a little oven to dry things off. 15 minutes later we trotted off with our 65 aprons.
These aprons are made special by Lucy, one of our two Cooking School Assistants. Lucy is a woman of many talents. Not only does she cook well as an assistant for our chef Claudia, she also sews and her parents are the artisans who provide several spice mixtures, they produce. Chile de Arbol, Black Pepper and Pumpkinseed.
The apron pickup was just one of 9 stops in Cancun today. Okay... don't get me started!
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