The festival doesn’t have food vendors. Instead, Escamilla himself curates the food that’s served.
He’s no chef, he said, but he does “love the history of artisanal food and flavours.”
The festival is bringing in two chefs who specialize in Purepecha cuisine from Michoacan, Mexico and Mixtec cuisine from Puebla, Mexico.
‘Let’s not forget who brings food to our tables’
Escamilla said food is important for Indigenous communities, due to the thousands of years of caring for one another through sharing, but also for the festival as a way to bring the conversation back to migrant farm workers.
For him, growing up near Mexico’s border with Guatemala, the topic of migrant struggles was always on his mind.
Inspired by the fight of Indigenous communities in Canada, he wanted the Indigenous workers from Mexico on Canadian lands to be celebrated.
He said workers already go through enough working long days, making little money they send back home.
“[Migrant workers] do it for 35 years, and [they] still do it the same way, at the same rate, same conditions, and then you’re creating a generational problem and trauma in your family,” he said.
“People say to me in interviews, ‘my children hate me because I’ve been gone for 30 years, they only see me for two months [out of a year], I’m a stranger to them.'”
Escamilla said he wants migrant workers to remain the guest of honour at the festival.
“Let’s not forget who brings the food to our tables,” he said.
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