The Talavera work has been one of the wealth of mexican handcrafts most practiced in Puebla since the first spanish potters, stablished the first Talavera workshop in the New Spain (Mexico), and brought the technique to make majolica earthenware from Talavera de la Reina (Spain). Talavera from Puebla is the oldest high-fire tin-glazed ceramic in America and it is still being manufactured with the same techniques as in the 16^th Century. 

The variety in decoration designs painted in plates, jars, vases, and tiles explains the distinctive characteristics of Spanish, Arabic, Italian and Chinese origin and the creativity of the Mestizos (spanish-native blooded people) and native people of Mexico.The presence of good clay in the region plus the skilled native craftsmen and to the splendor of the arts at that time in Puebla, in a short time the Talavera from Puebla achieved such quality and beauty that it was soon exported to the rest of the Americas.

Part ot Puebla's Past lives on in their kitchens because the splendor of the cuisine art developed mainly during the baroque colonial period.

Because convents played an important role in this evolution in mexican cuisine, their area of influence  moved out of the own spaces by offering a way to decorate with Talavera tiles the kitches in the civil houses as well.

The Kitchen in the Dominican Convent of Santa Rosa is an exquisite example of what Talavera work can be done in this important space. According to history, one the most famous Puebla dishes was invented here and the Puebla bishop honored the dish invention by decorating the whole kitchen in Talavera tiles.

The Kitchen is also located at Santa Rosa Handcrafts Museum where you can admired an amazing collection of the Puebla State handcraftship.