What I Did On My Summer Vacation--Oaxaca with Susan Trilling

Source: What I Did On My Summer Vacation--Oaxaca with Susan Trilling

Regular Blog commenter and writer Cynthia is just back from a Foodie dream vacation in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Not her first visit , this time she decided to delve deeper into the food history of the region.


"I signed up for a couple of courses with Susan Trilling at Seasons of My Heart. Susana's classes were
particularly well suited to my interests -- not only did she work 
overtime exposing us to every possible traditional Oaxacan food, she also 
lectured on food origins, arranged for us to have a local scholar show us through 
the Ethnobotanical Gardens and lecture on the history of food 
domestication,cultivation, and processing in Oaxaca (where the first maize may have 
been bred), and she took us to a Zapotec village in the mountains, where 
Zapotec women taught us how to use pre-Hispanic cooking tools and techniques to
prepare an almost entirely pre-Hispanic meal. 

We also had heaps of fun 
in the classroom/kitchen at Susana's Rancho Aurora, where we prepared a 
wide range of traditional Oaxacan specialties on both traditional and modern
equipment. It was simply splendid -- and just the sort of thing I 
thought might interest others interested in food history."