Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional

San Jerónimo Xonacahuacan México

Our program is based on sustainability practices. Program covers 72 hours of cooking and learning experience of Traditional Mexican Cuisine in rural setting.

Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

Program Highlights

Program is designed to teach cooking professionals Traditional Mexican Cuisine. A learning experience in traditional and rural setting, in a small town of San Jerónimo Xonacahuacan, . This small town is located just an hour away from Mexico City.

Included in your program - 11 days – 72 hours of cooking and learning - Accommodation, maid service, hot water, laundry and Wi-Fi - Daily breakfast and lunch - From and to airport transportation - Traditional Mexican menu for you to learn - Complete documentation provided of all dishes and recipes - Cultural and language exposure. An experience of a life time - Special Saturday Presentations - Tour of Pulque Farm – Learn how Pulque comes about - Full day food tour in Mexico City to have better understanding of Mexican gastronomy - Program is available in English or Spanish or both - Certificate of Participation by ChefsProject.com

Benefits for cooking professionals As a participating cook or a chef, you are making a difference. You will have the opportunity to learn Traditional and Traditional Mexican dishes taught by local Mexican Chefs, resulting in job opportunities for locals. A true career builder This is not a recreational class. We will prepare you for your new a career for the fastest growing segment in the restaurant industry today, The Real Mexican Food. Possibilities are just endless. ...

- Great new talent and a skill set for Personal Chefs

- Advancement in your current cooking career

- Thinking about starting a restaurant business? This is the way to go

- Catering companies; - let us train your chefs, so you can offer more choices to your clients

- Recreational cooking schools; let us help you train your chefs. Be a part of the fastest growing cuisine in the world - Existing Mexican restaurants; let us train your crew. Introduce authentic and traditional choices to your menu - And let's not forget, everyone loves Mexican cuisine

Please Note: Some dishes are subject to seasonal ingredients. We reserve the right to substituted them with something else. Please keep in mind that you are not checking into a five-star hotel. This is a comfortable rural setting operation.

Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

Your new home away from home in San Jerónimo Xonacahuacan

Centro de Gastronomia Sostenibilidad Our location, a large private home like setting, it sleeps up to 12 persons Setup includes area for cooking classes, separate kitchen for your daily use and living room for you to relax.

Also on site: - Laundry - Wi-Fi - Hot water - 24/7 help via phone (in English or Spanish)

Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

Your arrival on Friday. Pickup at the airport and rest of the day free to relax.

Welcome to Mexico

Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

First Saturday Tour of Historical Center, Mexico City …

It is imperative to get you started on good note. We have put together all day tour of Mexico City with focus on food and gastronomy. Along the way, you will learn some very important tips, which will help you during your entire stay.

On this panoramic tour of the we will visit some most popular yet important for you to see in the Historical Center. Highlights of our tour includes introduction on pre-Hispanic Mexican gastronomy, along with food tasting and visit to local mercado to have better understanding of Mexican ingredients.

The tour initiates at Herdez Foundation. We will visit its museum and its precious library specializing in gastronomy, presenting over 5000 books on Mexican gastronomy. The museum has its own kitchen and dining room, two of the most dynamic spaces where tastings and demonstrative courses are held.

Right next door, we are going to visit wonderful museum and archaeological zone of Templo Mayor, a pre-Hispanic city under present-day Mexico City, where we can see traditions and customs in pre-Hispanic markets.

If time allows, we will visit the magnificent murals of Diego Rivera, in the National Palace (Palacio Nacional) close by, which depict the products and culinary techniques of pre-Hispanic Mexico.

Visit to a small mercado called Presidente Abelardo Rodríguez. The Abelardo L. Rodriguez Market is a traditional public market located in the historic center of Mexico City, northeast of the main plaza, or Zocalo. It was built in 1934 as a prototype for a more modern marketplace and has a number of unusual features such as day care and an auditorium.

After our visit to Mercado we will be eating in a restaurant called Restaurante San Fransico, also known as Casa Tlaxcala. The restaurant is housed in a typical XVIII century middle-class home.

After meal, we are going to take a little walk through the streets of the city. We will stop for coffee or chocolate with at famous place called El Moro. La Churreria El Moro was founded in 1935 by Francisco Iriarte, who arrived in Mexico from a town called Elizondo in the Baztán Valley, Spain. The churrería is named after the fiestas of these towns in Spain, where an Arab, known as "El Moro", sold churros from town to town in a cart.

During our walk, you will have the opportunity to photograph beautiful colonial buildings on Tacuba Street, such as el Museo Nacional de Arte, and el Palacio de Minería y la Oficina de Correos. Making our final stop at majestic Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

Program Menu – Day to day activities First Sunday

Orientation We are glad you are here. Today we will go over few things which will help make your stay comfortable.

Breakfast at local Mercado Let’s start your day with breakfast at a local Mercado. Try some traditional breakfast choices. Best thing about eating at Mercado is that food is always prepared fresh and right before your eyes. No frozen products or artificial ingredients.

Visiting of a local market After your breakfast, we will be visiting local grocers, you will have the opportunity to practice your Spanish and make some new friends. You will be revisiting your local grocers quite often.

Get to know your town tour San Jerónimo Xonacahuacan is a small town, however it is good idea to get to know your surroundings. We will be showing you around.

Pulque Farm – Tour and Tasting

Pulque About this sound ['pulke] is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey (agave) plant. It is traditional to central Mexico, where it has been produced for millennia. It has the color of milk, somewhat viscous consistency and a sour yeast-like taste. The drink’s history extends far back into the Mesoamerican period, when it was considered sacred, and its use was limited to certain classes of people. After the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, the drink became secular and its consumption rose. Pulque has been drunk for least 1,000 years, and its origins are the subject of various stories and myths. Most involve Mayahuel, the goddess of the maguey. It was thought that the aguamiel collecting in the center of the plant was her blood. Other deities, such as the Centzon Totochtin (400 rabbits) are associated with it, by representing the drink's effects, and are the children of Mayahuel. Today you will get to experience how Pulque comes about, from tasting of freshly extracted water from maguey plant to taste of fermented Pulque.

Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

Program Menu – Day to day activities

Today you will be learning the following …

Monday - Introduction and discussion of ingredients and dishes - Agua de jamaica - Agua fresca - con - Appetizer - con de tres chiles - Main dish - con - Main dish - Espuma de tequila -

At the end of your class your meals will be served with salad of the day.

Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

Program Menu – Day to day activities

Today you will be learning the following …

Tuesday - Introduction and discussion of ingredients and dishes - Agua de naranja – Agua fresca - – Appetizer - – Main dish - Arroz a la poblana – Soup - Nieve de guanábana - Dessert

At the end of your class your meals will be served with salad of the day. Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

Program Menu – Day to day activities

Today you will be learning the following …

Wednesday - Introduction and discussion of ingredients and dishes - Agua de zapote – Agua fresca - Ensalada de nopales – Appetizer - Pescado a la veracruzana – Main dish - Pescado al acuyo – Main dish - Chongos zamoranos - Dessert At the end of your class your meals will be served with salad of the day.

Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

Program Menu – Day to day activities

Today you will be learning the following …

Thursday - Introduction and discussion of ingredients and dishes - Agua de Limón con chia – Agua fresca - de huitlacoche - Appetizer - Sopa de flor de calabaza y hongos - Soup - Huanzontles en salsa de Pasilla – Main dish - - Dessert

Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

Program Menu – Day to day activities

Today you will be learning the following …

Friday - Introduction and discussion of ingredients and dishes - Agua fresca de Pepino – Agua fresca - Calabacitas a la mexicana – Appetizer - Cerdo con verdolagas – Main dish - – Main dish - Buñuelos - Dessert

At the end of your class your meals will be served with salad of the day.

Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

Program Menu – Day to day activities

Today you will be learning the following …

Saturday - Introduction and discussion of ingredients and dishes - Agua fresca de guayaba – Agua fresca - Enchiladas de , rellenas de pollo - Appetizer - Pollo a la ximbó – Main dish - Ensalada de mango, aguacate y rúcula – Mexican salad - Dulce de camote - Dessert

Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

Program Menu – Day to day activities

Today you will be learning the following …

Sunday - Introduction and discussion of ingredients and dishes - Agua de – Agua fresca - – Main dish - (dulce, frijol y pollo) – Side dish - Dulce de frijol - Dessert

Last day of cooking and learning, Open house and Graduation party later this evening.

Sustainable Gastronomy Learn to Cook Traditional Mexican Cuisine

End of Program

Monday Free to depart Get ready to go back home

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