Teotitlán Traditional Cooking Class

Schedule: 9am-6pm

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,330 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)
Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (40 minutes each way)
Visit to regional market
Breakfast at the market of local delicacies like chotolate atole, tamales, memelas, and tepache
Cooking class of regional dishes with a cocinera tradicional utilizing 4 types heirloom corn grown on site and traditional tools such as the comal and metate
Enjoying the lunch that we cook accompanied by our selection of traditional mezcal
Rug weaving and natural dye demonstration
Option to visit a beeswax candle maker´s workshop or Tule tree
Drinking water and light snacks
Donation to women's cooperative annual project

Tlacolula Market & Teotitlán Traditional Cooking Class

Schedule: 9am-6pm, Sundays only

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,330 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)
Comfortable round trip transportation from Oaxaca city (45 minutes each way)
Guided visit to the día de plaza in Tlacolula where vendors come from all over the state to sell produce, coffee, bread, chocolate, honey, chilies and other local delicacies;
Breakfast of local dishes at the market such as memelas and goat barbacoa
Cooking class of regional dishes with a cocinera tradicional utilizing 4 types of heirloom corn grown on site and traditional tools such as the comal and metate
Enjoying the lunch that we cook accompanied by our selection of traditional mezcal
Weaving and natural dye demonstration
Drinking water and light snacks
Donation to women's cooperative annual project

Schedule: 9am-3pm

Cost per person: $155 USD/2,800 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)
Comfortable round trip transportation from Oaxaca city (40 mins each way)
Visit to village market
Breakfast at the market of local delicacies like chotolate atole, tamales, memelas, and tepache
Learn to make traditional chocolate from scratch with a cocinera tradicional, toasting the cacao, grinding it by hand on the metate, and forming it into bars to be used in cooking and hot chocolate
Enjoy hot chocolate from the chocolate we prepare
Take home some of the chocolate we make
Lunch of local delicacies prepared by our hosts
Rug weaving and natural dye demonstration
Drinking water and light snacks
Donation to women's cooperative annual project

Schedule: 9am-3pm

Cost per person: $155 USD/2,800 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)
Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (1 hour each way)
Breakfast of regional dishes
Learn to make traditional chocolate cocinera tradicional from scratch, toasting the cacao, taking it to the mill, and forming it into bars to be used in cooking and hot chocolate
Enjoy hot chocolate made with the chocolate we make and agua blanca
Taking home some of the chocolate we make
Lunch of local delicacies prepared by a cocinera tradicional in the home of an antiques dealer and local historian accompanied by our selection of traditional mezcal
Visit to the Mitla ruins (entrance fee included, 30 min free time at the ruins)
Drinking water and light snacks
Donation to women's cooperative annual project

Schedule: 9am-7pm

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,330 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

Personalized guide and translation service (Spanish/English)
Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca City (2 hours each way)
Quick breakfast of antojitos, little local snacks at our favorite roadside comedor
Cooking class at a mezcal ranch which grows agaves as well heirloom varieties of corn, squash, and beans. Our teacher will show us how to make regional dishes with ingredients grown on site such as següeza, amarillo, and hand made tortillas
Enjoying the lunch we cook
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
Drinking water and light snacks
Donation to future community youth center