Your experience will start with a tour of your host's neighborhood market where they will help you discover regional produce. The market is located in a building with stalls filled with a variety of local fruits and vegetables. If you happen to book this tour on a Saturday, your host will take you to the local tianguis (street market). Tianguis have been important in Mexican trade and culinary traditions since before the Spaniards arrived. Each neighborhood has it's own tianguis, which operates one or two days per week.
After your market visit, you'll join your host in their kitchen and learn to make traditional dishes such as chilaquiles, corn quesadillas with fillings such as mushrooms, nopales (cactus), huitlacoche (corn fungus), and flor de calabaza (squash flowers), with beans or a tomato chickpea rice as a side. The cooking portion of your experience will last 1.5 hours before you and your host sit down to enjoy the meal.
Posted By : adal15
Bernardo was a great host and cooking instructor! We arrived at his home, which was beautifully decorated in a very quaint neighborhood, and then he took us to Mercado de Coyoacan, where we picked up the ingredients for our chilaquiles dish. On the way back, he even gave us a brief tour of Coyoacan and pointed out landmarks in the area. The actual cooking part was really fun and it was great to learn about Bernardo's family history and hear his cultural insights about CDMX. Not to mention, the food was DELICIOUS! Bernardo was extremely hospitable and even let us leave our suitcases at his place while we wandered around the neighborhood after the cooking class (we needed to catch our flights home right after). Overall, we had a great time and would highly recommend this experience to anyone looking to learn about Mexican cuisine or culture in general!
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Posted On : 2018-05-01 14:55:24 
