Seasons of My Heart Cooking School - 68000 Oaxaca de Juárez

Great experience. Susana is an excelent chef and a great person. All the SOMH team is extremely warm and professional.

We loved the Seasons of My Heart cooking school experience. The staff was kind, knowledgable and super helpful. We have done two classes and plan to do more!

Susana Trilling is not only an amazing chef but a phenomenal teacher. Her ability to teach cooking is not limited to demonstrations or verbal dialogue, it is a visual, tactile even olfactory journey punctuated with tastings along the way. This is no more evident than in the preparation of mole. At each step, it is about the individual ingredient and the incorporation of the ingredient into the whole. She shows how the "concoction" comes together and how the flavor develops and improves and enhances until that point where stock must be added. This is accomplished through tasting as the ingredients are incorporated and more importantly during the seemingly endless cooking down of the mole. With the help of her staff, Susana provides all that one could ask for in a teaching environment. This is made evident by how many of our class had had other classes with Susana. So, if you want a true culinary course, you will not find a more talented or charming teacher. PS There is also a marvelous tour of the Etla market with Yolanda. You get to see some of the Oaxacan chilies (20 or so), some of the herbs, and the wide variation of fresh fruits and vegetables. Also, you get to sample several types of Tamal (tamales), local corn and fruit based drinks and local ice cream.

My husband and I spent a wonderful day at this cooking school. From the tour of the market to the end of the day dessert, everything was well organized and fun. Yolanda, Emily, and Dulce as well as the great women at the school were all knowledgeable and friendly. We are now making some of the recipes at home. Highly recommend.