Private Cooking Experience with local in Salvador

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5 hours
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1 - 15 guests
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English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Immerse in Salvador's rich culinary heritage. Cook with locals, visit markets, and discover traditional flavors. Experience culture and cuisine in an Afro-Brazilian family setting.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Experience the special flavor of Salvador. Enjoy and participate in a special cooking experience with local Brazilian residents. The city of São Salvador da Bahia emanates the heritage left by African, Portuguese and indigenous legacies. You will visit a local seafood market to learn about fish used in traditional recipes.  You will also stop at local produce vendors choosing the best vegetables and fruit to use in the traditional dish.  You will proceed to a local family residence, an Afro-Brazilian family savors the flavors of the African Diaspora, or as our ancestors would say it, the ajeum - eating is sacred).


Learn and watch the local way of cooking and colorful traditional food while enjoying a great informal conversation about local city life and the history of the area.

Sample Menu

STARTER
Caipirinha
Delicious drink made whit tropical fruits, shugar and shugarcane cachaça.
MAIN
Fish Moqueca
Fish Moqueca cooked with vegetables, various seasonings and palm oil. A typical Bahia dish left as an African heritage.
MAIN
Pirão de Farinha
Delicious delicacy made with moqueca broth and manioc flour.
MAIN
Rice
White rice with spices.
MAIN
Farofa
Manioc Flour toasted with palm oil and onions
DESSERT
coconut candy
coconuts candy made with sugar cane and cloves

What You Get

Hotel pickup and drop-off
Professional guide
Lunch
Drinks
Gratuities

Good To Know

  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Minimum of two adults per booking
  • Dress code is smart casual

What You’ll Experience

Learn to cook traditional Brazilian dishes during this 5-hour experience in Salvador. With your local guide and a host family, visit the local seafood market learn about the best type of fish to use for traditional recipes such as 'moqueca', or fish stew. Stop by a local produce vendor to choose vegetables for the stew and fruit to use in 'capirinhas', a traditional Brazilian drink made with sugar cane liquor. Back at the host family's house, engage in friendly, informal conversation about the history and culture of Salvador. Learn the secrets behind making a perfect fish stew, then sit down to eat.

Meeting & Pickup

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We need the name of the hotel independently if it's not on the area selected, we pick up all clients in all hotel around Salvador City or in Airbnb address.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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We loved our experience
August 12, 2023
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Our experience was amazing and a highlight of our trip. Our guide Andre was knowledgeable and fantastic! Our Chef Antonia and her family treated us like family. We are grateful for this experience ...read more

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Avoid!
August 09, 2023
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I would not recommend this. The guide couldn't stop telling sexual anecdotes along with innuendos on the side, as though he was trying to get a response or shock us. We were traveling with 2 childr...read more

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La qualité du plat...
July 21, 2023
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La qualité du plat préparé La gentillesse des hôtes L'apport du guide et son aisance linguistique L'échange avec les animateurs de cette expérience

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Amazing tour experience
November 19, 2021
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Our tour guide Marcos was truly knowledgeable , so insightful and friendly !!!! We had a great time with him ! Angelica is a queen !!! She taught us with humor how to create the dish amd we were s...read more

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Delicious food with a wonderful chef
January 23, 2020
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Thanks to the lovely Angelique for taking us into her house and showing us how to prepare this delicious Bahian fish stew (moqueca). She is already well known for her skills, having appeared on tel...read more

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