Traditional Cooking Class with Minerva Lopez

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6 hours
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1 - 10 guests
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English, Spanish
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Join Minerva Lopez for a hands-on cooking session at her home in Oaxaca. Experience traditional pre-Hispanic flavors, shop local markets, and savor dishes cooked on an outdoor wood stove.

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

Experience Details

I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT:

IT IS NOT A RESTAURANT, I DO NOT CONSIDER MYSELF A CHEF


I am Minerva Lopez and I am a traditional cook from Oaxaca and I have more than 40 years of experience in pre-Hispanic and traditional cooking.


I invite you to spend a day at my house, with my family, my culture, it is an authentic experience where you will learn to cook as I learned, as if it were with mom!

Our groups are small which makes for an intimate, family experience

The market that we visited is the largest in Oaxaca and it is not touristic, where the locals go to buy our fresh and organic ingredients, here it is possible to adapt our menu to your tastes

There are vegan, vegetarian and meat lovers options.

At home away from the city in a small town, our outdoor wood stove is the best place to cook.

Everything we will eat is prepared at home

MORE THAN A CLASS IS A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE OF FLAVORS AND KNOWLEDGE



Sample Menu

STARTER
House chocolate with bread
A chocolate drink is served accompanied with traditional bread
STARTER
hand tortillas
Learn to make tortillas by hand on a clay griddle or pre-Hispanic stove
MAIN
OPTION 1 Oaxacan Mole
available moles(10) you can choose 1 of them BLACK MOLE reddish chichilo green yellow yellow mixe stew nutty manchamanteles
MAIN
Option 2 Experience with corn
2 different sauces are prepared with endemic chilies and tomatoes Quedillas with pumpkin flower and cheese memelitas yellow mole
MAIN
OPTION 3 OAXACAN TAMALES
The black mole tamale is prepared in banana leaf and two more to choose from -green sauce -slices of chili -bean -sweet
MAIN
OPTION 4 DISH OF YOUR CHOICE
ASK ABOUT THE SEASONAL INGREDIENTS AND DISHES
DESSERT
Typical Seasonal Dessert
Native or exotic fruits that we buy in the market, seasonal desserts Example roasted bananas Corn dessert (nicoatole) Oaxacan sweets

What You Get

seasonal dessert
Lunch
dishes to choose
Vegetarian/vegan/gluten free menu option
Beer or soda

Good To Know

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Service animals allowed

What You’ll Experience

We will welcome you to my wood stove. I am a teacher of Traditional Oaxacan Cooking and winner of 1st Place in the Meeting of Traditional Cooks of Oaxaca. First I will take you for a walk through the largest market in Oaxaca, you will get to know endemic and local foods and products, this is where we will buy our fresh and authentic ingredients. I will teach you how to prepare from scratch a Mole Negro or Mole Coloradito, Green, Yellow and/or as well as Nixtamal to prepare tortillas, memelitas and empanadas, without forgetting our Molcajete Sauces, as some authentic Oaxacan dishes (ASK FOR THE AVAILABLE MENU FOR THE DATE YOU RESERVE, THERE ARE SEASONAL DISHES, VEGETARIANS, VEGANS TOO) During the cooking class we will drink local fruit drinks and eat quesillo and Grasshoppers while we prepare our dish TO CHOOSE At the end of the cooking class we will taste our dish made with a rich Mezcal and you can take the prepared products with you.

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Gral. Antonio de León 1, General Antonio de León, Oaxaca, Mexico, MX, 68000

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WE CAN AGREE ON A PLACE OF DEPARTURE OR THE ZOCALO OF THE CD OF OAXACA, IN FRONT OF THE CATHEDRAL. ALSO IN THE LESCAS CO TOURS OFFICE, THEY ARE FRIENDS OF MINE AND CAN WAIT IN THEIR OFFICE ANTONIO DE LEON NO. 1 LOCAL I IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS YOU CAN CONTACT ME BY CALL OR WHATSAPP +529512903409
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

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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