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Day Sessions

Short sessions that offer guests a deep cultural, spiritual, and ecological dive into ancestral Oaxacan foodways.

Food of the Gods: Chocolate + Maize Session

Oaxaca’s markets, chocolatiers, and streets are our classrooms as we taste and learn about the mysteries of chocolate and corn not only through Mexican and world history, but through flavours. Via pre-hispanic cacao drinks, local seeds, very rare types of chocolate, and heirloom maize foods we endeavour to learn about Oaxacan chocolate and maize traditions.

Guests are challenged to consider their approach to the vast differences in taste, textures, and context that root Oaxacan and Western chocolate traditions and how all of this might inform our relations to money, death, time, and ceremony. Note: This is not a cacao ceremony.

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The Spirits of Agave: Fermentations

Join us for a flight or tasting of three ancient maguey/agave beverages. We endeavour to learn about the mysterious path of maguey, the Goddess Mayahuel, and the moon. Guests are challenged to consider their approach to the vast differences in taste, textures, and context that root Oaxacan and Western traditions. We ask how all of this might inform our relations to farming, elderhood, sacrifice, myth, and food.

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Earth, Fire, Food: Oaxacan Pottery, Chocolate and Storytelling

Over the course of a full day we will visit a family of three generations of potters actively engaged in the collective rememberance of their craft.

We will explore the process of turning clay into ceramics, each step being undertaken and taught together, the use of stone in traditional chocolate preparation, and the ceremony behind the work.

Finally, we will be getting our hands dirty learning the living alchemy of earth and fire, listening to master storytellers, and discovering the old relationships between the fire that cooks our pottery that cooks our food.

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STUDENT AND PRIVATE GROUP SESSIONS

All of our sessions, whether day trips or deep immersions, are offered for and can be modified to suit the interests of student groups and private groups.

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Chocolate & Maize

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Earth, Fire, Food: Oaxacan Pottery

Cacao Food Forest Field Trip

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  • star rating  We started our 5 day adventure in Oaxaca with the chocolate and Maize tour by Chris. We had 2 teens... read more

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    Kirsten D
    March 18, 2020

    star rating  We started our 5 day adventure in Oaxaca with the chocolate and Maize tour by Chris. We had 2 teens and 2 moms in our group. All four of us... read more loved the experience. We were a bit “overdosed” on chocolate at the end, so we might have been fine to end it earlier. Chris is very

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    Kirsten D
    March 1, 2020
  • star rating  we really appreciated our experience with Chris today during our chocolate and maize session. we... read more

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    lorih567
    February 28, 2020

    star rating  If you want to learn about Oaxacan pottery, this is it. The driver and "animator" picked us up in Oaxaca City and drove us to Atzompa, a town famous for... read more its pottery. We learned the ceramic making process from the clay to the mixing to the sculpting and burning. I was surprised

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    Pepe
    February 1, 2020
  • star rating  we really appreciated our experience with Chris today during our chocolate and maize session. we learned a tremendous amount about the history of chocolate and maize in Oaxaca specifically, and... read more it was all fascinating. we certainly loved all the amazing chocolate we got to try,

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    lori h
    February 1, 2020

    star rating  I can only reiterate what everyone else has said. Excellent knowledge and great respect for the local culture. You get to taste chocolate and corn but you... read more also get to know a lot more about the importance of both.

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    Andrea Middleton
    January 1, 2020
  • star rating  Even though I have been living in Oaxaca for 3 years, I had never thought of pulque as an important part of the local cultural heritage, blinded by the overwhelming... read more mezcal fever that is everywhere. I was extremely pleased and intrigued to discover the secrets behind the

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    Rougetomate
    December 1, 2019

    star rating  From the earth, transformed through fire, to the final pottery – Earth, Fire, Food! A mult-faceted approach to this hands-on & multisensory experience. From history, to culture, to... read more geography, rituals, geology, language, ceramics and chocolate & food - lots of attention to

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    Larissa Rolley
    December 1, 2019
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