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Cost per person: $1,265 USD/22,800 MXN

Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city

• Three days of cooking classes which include learning different nixtamalization techniques, different grinding techniques, how to work with fresh, dried, and nixtmalized corn; in total learning 7 different Oaxacan corn based dishes and 2 traditional corn based beverages

• Visit to a traditional mezcal palenque where will learn about the history in the region and production from a mezcal producing family 

• Tasting of traditional mezcal at the palenques 

• A chance to buy mezcal directly from the producer (price not included), our help packing in for travel

• Visit to several local markets including the Sunday Tlacolula market

• 7 meals 

• Four nights stay: 3 nights accommodation at El Diablo y La Sandia and 1 night accommodation at Rancho Los Nahuales (double occupancy)

• Take home kit of basic tools for tortilla making tools

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to future community youth center

• Donation to women´s cooperative annual project 

Dishes learned:

• Tortillas: blandas, tlayudas, and tostadas

• Main and side dishes: yellow mole, tamales, segueza, esquites

• Drinks: tejate, atole

Skills learned:

• Short-form and long-form nixtamalization techniques with cal (calcium hydroxide) and ash used by cocineras tradicionales in Teotitlán and Miahuatlán

• How to grind nixtamalized corn by hand on a metate (stone mill) and how an electric stone mill works (molino)

• How to create different tortilla textures based on grinding technique and heat control (blandas, tlayudas, and tostadas) on a clay comal over a wood burning fire

• Have an understanding of how to form tortillas with a press and by hand 

• How to work with dried corn, nixtamalized corn, and fresh corn