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5 Best Oaxaca City Cooking Classes

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The 5 oaxaca city cooking classes travellers love most, gathered in one place. What you cook, how long you spend at the stove, who teaches, and what a seat at the table costs.

5 Best Oaxaca City Cooking Classes

Flavors of Oaxaca: Cooking Class with No Set Menu and Local Market Tour - Cooking with Oscar: hands-on prep, guided steps, and shared rhythm
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Flavors of Oaxaca: Cooking Class with No Set Menu and Local Market Tour

1.Flavors of Oaxaca: Cooking Class with No Set Menu and Local Market Tour

Small-group Oaxaca cooking class with a local market tour, hands-on prep, and lunch with complimentary drinks, tailored for your diet.

Most Popular★ 4.5

“Nicely paced market tour and cooking class! The different settings and pacing made it easy to stay engaged. We also enjoyed the balance between hands-on opportunities to cook and Oscar and the staff helping with clean up and set up to keep the class moving along efficiently. We had a nice group of just 6…”

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Oaxacan Vegetarian Cooking Class - The Neighborhood Walk: Merced, churches, parks, and color
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Oaxacan Vegetarian Cooking Class

2.Oaxacan Vegetarian Cooking Class

Oaxaca’s vegetarian cooking class blends a neighborhood market walk with hands-on mole, tortillas, and dessert in 4 hours.

★ 5.0

“In this class you would be able to experience /observe the cooking process of quite a few signature dishes. The whole process started from grocery shopping in the mercado (traditional market). In the market, we had a chance to taste the local cheese as well. The format of cooking class itself was different from what…”

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Traditional Cooking Class with Minerva Lopez - Choosing Your Main: Mole Negro and Coloradito, Corn Plates, or Tamales
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Traditional Cooking Class with Minerva Lopez

3.Traditional Cooking Class with Minerva Lopez

Tour Mercado de Abastos, then cook traditional Oaxaca dishes from scratch with Minerva Lopez, ending with mezcal tasting and dessert.

★ 5.0

“Our group really enjoyed Minerva's cooking class! The outdoor cooking area is very relaxing surrounded by a garden. We were cooking a complicated mole recipe, so she had the whole group divide up responsibilities and take turns prepping and cooking different items to make up the dish. We really liked this arrangement because it gave…”

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Cooking class with a traditional Oaxacan cook - Getting to the meeting point and the ride out
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Cooking class with a traditional Oaxacan cook

4.Cooking class with a traditional Oaxacan cook

Hands-on Oaxacan cooking class in clay pots with hot chocolate, mole, tortillas, firewood fruit, and family mezcal, outside Oaxaca City.

★ 5.0

“Su, the host, made us feel at home and the food we prepared was absolutely delicious. The drive to her house is really short and though it is a lengthy experience, the time flew by. It was a very nice experience to taste authentic Oaxacan food. I would do this activity all over again.”

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4 Moles Oaxacan Cooking Class with Traditional Cook - Where the class starts (and why timing matters)
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4 Moles Oaxacan Cooking Class with Traditional Cook

5.4 Moles Oaxacan Cooking Class with Traditional Cook

Cook four Oaxaca moles with Chef Carrizosa in English, learn the story behind each sauce, and finish with chocolate ice cream plus guajillo.

★ 5.0

“Very friendly and clean. Welcomed us warmly and gave clear directions, with cultural information. It was just the right length, we didn’t want a long day of cooking. The food was delicious!”

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