Seasons Of My Heart Cooking School offers a host of opportunities for everyone interested in food. Our comprehensive courses and tours give you an insider's knowledge of Mexican culture through its cuisine and an experience of Mexico most visitors never see. The classes, culinary tours and lectures focus on pre-Hispanic foods, traditional culinary, medicinal and spiritual herb usage, as well as Spanish influences on the contemporary Oaxacan kitchen. Some are based on the book and PBS Series Seasons Of My Heart; A Culinary Journey Through Oaxaca, Mexico. The participation-based classes are combined with market tours and demonstrations in local homes and cottage industries to immerse the students in Mexican culture. With many different classes and culinary tours to choose from, we hope to see you soon.

Susana Trilling, teacher, chef, writer and television host will teach you to work with the native foods of Mexico. In Susana's words, "Although I have explored many different types of cooking in my thirty years of being a chef, the Cocina Mexicana is most certainly the closest to my heart. My mother's parents were Mexican, and my grandmother used to run a little restaurant in the Hospital of Santa Rosa in San Antonio, Texas. Her food was Tex-Mex, based on the most incredibly chewy flour tortillas, pinto beans with crispy corn chalupa shells and exceptional hot tamales. Her cupboard was full of her famous homemade jams, made from the large variety of fruit trees she nurtured in her yard. As a child, I thought her kitchen was the center of the universe. Something about the smells there and the language spoken by my grandparents over steaming cups of hot coffee seemed exotic and mysterious, and I embraced it wholeheartedly.".

A series of culinary tours are offered around the state of Oaxaca, visiting some of our friends and locations from the television series: Seasons of My Heart; A Culinary Journey through Oaxaca, Mexico. We also offer an exciting and mouth watering tour in Veracruz to celebrate the Spring Equinox and the yearly vanilla harvest as well as an exotic tour to the states of the Yucatan Peninsula to savor the exciting days of Carnival. Our newest tour features cacao and wild mushrooms in the other two Mayan states of Mexico, Tabasco and Chiapas. We will explore the Mayan culture, cuisine, ruins, jungles and waterfalls of this area.

We are very excited about these tours and hope you will be part of them. Please click on our website to see Susana's full biography, many more photos of Oaxaca and Seasons of My Heart Cooking School, and schedules and prices of all classes and tours. Also on our website we offer for export to the U.S. many Oaxacan favorites, such as mole, jalape�o jelly and Oaxacan chocolate and will ship direct to your door.

SEASONS OF MY HEART COOKING SCHOOL
Oaxaca, Mexico

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