Cooking Class in San Antonio

San Antonio is a village of about 3000 people, mostly Yucatec Maya. There is a women’s coop that hosts cooking classes.
Our menu was a sweet potato pudding, tortilla soup, and chicken tamales. We cooked in reverse order from when we’d eat. The sweet potato pudding involved grating a lot of sweet potato and making coconut milk from scratch. The Mennonites in the area invented a coconut tool for carving out the coconut meat. There is a big population of Mennonites nearby in a place called Spanish Lookout. Then we made the soup and finally prepared banana leaves and cornmeal mush for the tamales. We all built tamales by wrapping them in the banana leaves.Read more