A couple weekends ago, Alejandro and I went to Chapultepec Park to visit the Fonart Store that is located there. Fonart is a government agency that promotes the creation of high quality Mexican handicrafts, and it operates a number of stores throughout the city.
This Fonart is unique in that there is an adjoining store called Cencalli which sells Mexican artisanal food products. ("Cencalli" is a word from the Aztec language of Nahuatl which means granary. It comes from the words "centli" - corn and "calli" - house.)
We came here primarily to visit the food store. One of my Swiss cousins likes spicy food, and we wanted to see if we could find some gourmet salsas as a gift for when we travel to Switzerland.
Cencalli has a wide variety of products, but I have to say that I was hoping that they would have a wider selection of salsas. However I did find a couple of small jars to buy for my cousin.
Of course, as long as we were there we had to look around the handicrafts store. Fonart always has such beautiful merchandise.
Many of the pieces here are quite expensive, but there are also items at an accessible price. I rarely leave a Fonart store empty handed, and I ended up buying a few things. However, I was a good boy. The purchases were not for myself. They were small, easily packed gifts to take to Switzerland.
My gift shopping for my cousins in now officially completed!
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