Walk from the meeting point to the market to explore it with your guide, try some local fruits, cochinita pibil (pork cooked underground) and other samples while you are shoping all the ingredients for the class on the market.
Experience a local bus ride to your host house and enjoy the cooking class with her and your guide, learn cooking secrets and enjoy lunch together and refresh with local beverages.
Posted By : andrewjW2778WH
This tour takes you to the parts of Merida only locals go, which was such a good experience to have. Not only was it enriching to be among local people getting their produce, riding the bus, and then cooking in a local home, but the food we made was also fantastic.
Yucatecan cuisine is very different from the more internationally-known Mexican food, so being able to ask lots of questions was great for a foodie like me. Our guide Luz was very knowledgeable and our host/cooking instructor was so much fun.
Something worth noting: The only time you’ll have a/c is on the Uber ride back to your hotel. The market was very warm, as was the home we cooked at, though our host had many fans blowing which helped a lot. Be prepared to sweat it out and have a fantastic time.
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Posted On : 2024-07-31 08:52:20 
Posted By : Corey H
Our group was great, the market tour was exciting, and the food was delicious. A huge thank you to our guide Laura for being a great source of information; looking forward to booking another tour with her after she’s running the place! Or sooner!
Another thanks to Roberta for letting us into her home and teaching us the recipes!
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Posted On : 2024-07-30 13:04:54
Posted By : Safari16119668587
We had a great and delicious day with our family. Our guide Laura Lopez was very helpful and fun and showed us around on the market while buying the ingredients for the courses. Bertha learn us at her place how to cook delicious courses. Our kids really enjoyed it too, as they were actively involved in the cooking. Especially making the empanadas from scratch was a highlight! Would definitely recommend it to everyone!
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Posted On : 2024-07-30 10:57:56
Posted By : Relax19803596460
Amazing experience, I can only recommend it to anyone wanting to experience local foods. Laura was an amazing and knowledgable guide, and Dorcas was a wonderful host.
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Posted On : 2024-07-28 11:40:11
Posted By : 914lesleyp
A really interesting and fun experience learning how to cook delicious Mexican food. Our guide Laura was so friendly, engaging and knowledgeable, plus she really looked after us making sure we were all happy and buying water for the group whilst we were touring the markets.
The tour started in the markets where we tried some delicious tacos, and choose all the ingredients we needed for the recipes, trying spices and Mexican sweets along the way.
The host family were all so welcoming, Laura was with us through out translating and sharing information about the food and culture.
A really excellent experience. Thank you Laura for being a delight
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Posted On : 2024-07-27 18:35:02
Posted By : jogO7810JM
A great culinary experience, only wishing we had done it earlier in the holiday so that we could use our new knowledge when choosing our meals. Laura was a friendly, helpful and knowledgeable guide, introducing us to the Mérida market and helping choose ingredients for the cooking class. We then went via public bus to the host cook’s house. Leonora our host cook was very welcoming and instructed us on how to cook dishes we had never tried before. We enjoyed the end result and the company. Highly recommend!
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Posted On : 2024-06-29 17:35:29
Posted By : W7801YTkellyt
This was an amazing excursion! Luz picked my husband and I up at the meeting place and brought us to the market. We ate tacos, tried different fruits, and ate avocados with sour orange juice. We also tasted spices that we were going to cook with later. We then took a mini van to Dona Dorkas's house. She was super sweet and welcoming and once she learned that I spoke Spanish, we talked a blue streak for the rest of our time! We made several traditional Yucatecan dishes including pollo pibil and cheese empenadas. Luz took pictures while my husband and I were elbow deep in the cooking and sent them, along with the recipes of the food we made, later. Luz and Dona Dorkas could not have been nicer! They both provided a memorable experience. I would highly recommend this experience for anyone who likes to cook or eat or both.
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Posted On : 2024-06-27 15:17:13
Posted By : Carrie_V
We had an excellent food market tour and cooking class. Laura- our tour guide was very knowledgeable in the culture and the city of Merida. During the market tour we sampled food and spices commonly used in Mexican cooking. We also gathered the food that we would use for our cooking class there.
Bertha was our home chef and we had such a great experience cooking in her home. She gave us lots of culinary information and included us in all aspects of the cooking process. We are together the food that we cooked and it was so fun!
Thank you Laura and Bertha for a great time!!
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Posted On : 2024-06-18 12:54:06 
Posted By : J1429DDtodds
We had a wonderful experience doing this cooking class. Our guide was amazing. She was very good at explaining everything we did from the market to the home. Her history lessons were very informative. The home that we cooked in was so welcoming. We were honored to be able to cook in this home.
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Posted On : 2024-06-17 20:00:21
Posted By : mikelg378
Incredible way to get into culture and food, we arrived on a very hot day but Laura (our guide) was very attentive to us with the necessary breaks along the way, we visited the market and then the food at Mrs. Berta's house was very good, it was fun to cook and learn with them. I really recommend this tour in your first day in Merida.
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Posted On : 2024-06-14 14:14:41
