Mercado de San Juan Pugibet

This guide to Mercado de San Juan Pugibet walks the stalls where crocodile tail, ostrich fillet, wild boar and lion sit on ice beside everyday cuts of pork and beef, including one vendor, Martha Marín Marín, who has run her stand with her children for twenty years and explains how she prepares lion and tiger meat. You'll hear the market's reputation as a source for Mexico City's top chefs, and how the vendors themselves respond when you ask if that reputation holds up. A fish seller whose family has worked these counters for over a century has a sharp answer of his own.