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¨Si no hay tortilla, no comiste,¨ if there is no tortilla then you didn´t really eat. A common phrase heard throughout Oaxaca. Corn is the base of the daily diet throughout Mexico and Oaxaca used daily to make many types of tortillas: blandas, tlyudas, tostadas, memelas, tetelas not to mention other corn based dishes such as tamales, espeso de guías, and many types of moles thickened with corn masa. Many Oaxacans still grow heirloom varieties seasonally and harvest fresh elotes (ears of corn) at the end of the rainy season in September. If there is a healthy rainfall and your visit coincides with this harvest you can join us in an elotiza in the Miahuatlán region. A harvest day tradition where mezcal producing families celebrate the harvest, feasting on grilled and boiled from corn.
Cost per person: $185 USD/3,475 MXN
Includes:
Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English). Pick up and drop off from your hotel or vacation rental (Centro, Jalatlaco, Xochimilico, Reforma, San Felipe)
Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca City (2 hours each way)
Big breakfast of at our favorite roadside comedor, which only uses wood fire for cooking and specializes in local corn tortillas
Learn about traditional agriculture systems that grow corn, beans, and squash alongside agave for mezcal production. We´ll harvest and cook fresh corn.
Enjoying the lunch we cook of corn based dishes
Visit to a traditional mezcal palenque, learning about the process and history of the mezcal of the region directly from the producing families who have been distilling their mezcal in copper for 4 generations
Learn about and see the biodiversity of different types of agaves used to make mezcal
Tasting of traditional mezcal made on site
A chance to purchase mezcal directly from the producers (price not included), our help packing it for travel
Farm to table unch of local delicacies prepared by a cocinera tradicional
Drinking water and light snacks
Donation to future community youth center