"I feel so proud of being part of something so traditionally Oaxacan," Daniel Rojas tells me as I enter a dimly lit room rich with the earthy smell of radishes. They are preparing for a radish-carving ...

A 2010 entry in the contest yaxchibonam via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Each December 23, the bracing peppery fragrance of thousands of radishes fills the air at the zócalo in Oaxaca, Mexico, as ...

City maintenance workers protest near the site where Oaxaca’s canceled radish carving festival was to be held. They said the government’s reason for calling off the event wasn’t true. (Cody ...

OAXACA, Mexico -- Michelangelo had fine Italian marble, carefully selected from the town of Carrara. Here, they have radishes, carefully selected from the garden. But who is to say that the art of the ...

Outside the U.S., Christmas traditions involve much more than reindeer and evergreen trees. While some traditions have emerged in modern times, many local holiday traditions stretch back centuries, ...

“I feel so proud of being part of something so traditionally Oaxacan,” Daniel Rojas tells me as I enter a dimly lit room rich with the earthy smell of radishes. They are preparing for a radish-carving ...