Traditional Cooking Class with Minerva Lopez

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US$123.88 per guest

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Earliest available date: August 14, 2026

Free cancellation (24 hours notice)

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

Summary

Experience Details

What You’ll Experience

Where to Meet

Reviews

Location

Oaxaca de Juarez

Duration

6 hours

Number of Guests

1 - 10 guests

Accessibility

Stroller Accessible

Language

English, Spanish

Other

Gluten-free, Vegan, Vegetarian, Family-friendly, Pet-friendly

Digital Ticket

Mobile or paper ticket accepted

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.

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.
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Reviews

4.8

based on 204 reviews

(TripAdvisor)

Highly Recommend

May 28, 2026

Such a great experience from start to finish. We picked up fresh ingredients at the market and were transported comfortably in an air-conditioned van. We made Mole Amarillo, two salsas, Memelitas, ...read more

(TripAdvisor)

Authentic Cooking Experience

April 23, 2026

I did a fair bit of research trying to find which would be the most authentic mole cooking experience. I'm very glad that we selected this one as right from the beginning we were picked up at the m...read more

(TripAdvisor)

Learn From The Master!

April 02, 2026

This "class" was everything you'd expect a great cooking class to be. Fun, informative and hands on. Our host was a wonderful and patient guide. Just getting a feel for moving the soft, freshly ...read more

(Viator)

Such a cozy experience...

March 31, 2026

Such a cozy experience that I wouldn’t imagine not doing while visiting Oaxaca. Learning the traditions around cooking mole and being able to take this home with us is exactly what we were looking ...read more

(TripAdvisor)

We love Minerva and her family

March 19, 2026

We had a good time learning to make the best mole from an expert!