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2010 LIST OF THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF HUMANITY *

Yesterday in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed the important list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mankind 3 Mexican Wonders: The Pirekua, Los Parachicos and Mexican cuisine.

The Pirekua is a genre of ethnic Purépecha, which in their language means song, and the Mexican state of Michoacan. represents a means of expressing the town's history, love and hate, geography and all that is meant to safeguard the soul from your traditions. is the result of the merger of the music of the missionaries and the Indians in pre-Columbian times. Is accompanied by strings and encourage deference of pirelis using only guitars. representation was Ignacio Marquez the Purépecha people who received the record by the UNESCO.

The Parachicos of Chiapa de Corzo arrived with their finely carved wooden masks by master craftsmen from the town and head a "skylight" made of woven and knotted ixtle, of the pattern Rubicel Gómez, has red flowers. They are indigenous Zoques performing their traditional fiesta in January that seventeenth century and since children learn to dance and participate in this celebration of which are very proud.

Juana Bravo, a native of Uruapan, Michoacan , received the certificate of registration in the name of traditional cooks. She was in Nairobi, Kenya, preparing meals for the participants of UNESCO where he made the decision to integrate the Mexican Cuisine as Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Lourdes Arizpe, professor and researcher at the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research of the UNAM said that this recognition of the Mexican cuisine was primarily due to indigenous women, after the cooks, they are housewives and finally all those that develop in restaurants adaptations of tradition and modernity.

The Association of Friends of MAP, AC celebrates foray so deserved some "ingredients" of our popular culture to the list of treasures that humanity we gifted each other.

* For more information visit the UNESCO website: http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/?lg=es&pg=00011

Juana Bravo and Jose N. Iturriaga

The historian Joseph N. Iturriaga, patron and friend of the Friends of the MAP, BC, participated in the efforts being made to include in the list to Mexican cuisine through the Conservatory of Mexican Food Culture, among many other members of that institution. Pepe Thanks for support and disseminate the cultural heritage of our country, in good time.

THE MICHOACAN PIRUEKA