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 ...

"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 ...

At Oaxaca's Night of the Radishes, freshly dug radishes are elaborately hand-carved for a holiday competition like no other in the world. The radishes grown for La Noche de Rabanos (The Night of the ...

Every year since 1897, around Christmas, the people of Oaxaca, Mexico, celebrate the Night of the Radishes. The central feature of this event is the carving of oversized radishes into various ...

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 ...

“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 ...