Home Made Pozole

Home made Pozole is a warming soup in the cold winter months. The bowl it’s in was a commission for a private collection.

Pozole is a wonderful soup stew from Central Mexico. I remember the first time I had Pozole. It was at a Holiday Party I crashed by accident. It was Margarita Ville in the Capitola Village and I unexpectedly descended on their holiday party. A friend of mine was their chef and had cooked up an enormous pot of pork stew with a beautifully rich red hue with stunning fluffy grain balls and meat. It looked so filling. My friend insisted I take a big bowl and he ladled me up some stew. It looked like magic coming out of the pot and cascading into my bowl. He then garnished it with thinly sliced cabbage, diced onions, lime, and a corona on the side and handed it to me. It was so good! The sensations were tangy, spicy, crunchy, sour, and chewy. That was the best bowl of Pozole I ever had. But since then every bowl of Pozole is good with its own time and place in a different context.

I’m happy when two or three worlds collide and create what is art. Life is art. And how we all have a choice to make these moments sacred in our lives. It culminates from a place of doing what we must do. Our expressions come out when we do the most essential tasks in life, like in cooking it becomes a display of beauty and grace. It is my honor to be the glassmaker that holds such amazing gustatory delights.