Gourmet tour through Mexico

Diego Rivera, the father of Mexican mural art, left a long list of foods that prehispanic peoples "gave" the world at the famous mural located in the City Hall of Mexico City. Maybe you will be surprised to learn that corn comes from this Aztec land, as well as the many different types of chiles -including "Hungarian" paprika. Beans, squash, tomato, vanilla, cacao (which the Aztecs called xocolatl), coffee, avocado, papaya, peanuts, turkey and even gum are also featured on the list.

In the same way the Mexicans were mixed with different indigenous groups, Europeans, Asians and Africans, its cuisine became a mixture of all those cultures. Thus, sugar made friends with chile and pork befriended green tomatos.

The Mexican traditional cuisine was added to the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010. Prehispanic agricultural techniques such as 'milpa' (a mixed cultivation system) and 'chinampa' (floating gardens) are part of this heritage, as are the traditional cooking methods which are  still used today, such as nixtamaliation and traditional cookware like the metate (grinding stone), the molcajete (stone mortar) and the molinillo.

Gourmet tours - one of the most delicious parts of your individual Mexico tour. As we have shown, a culinary connoisseur does not need to travel to France to delight his/her sophisticated palate. Allow us to take you to the agave fields, show you hidden markets and restaurants where food is truly authentic: close your eyes and open your mouth!

Mextrotter can organize an unforgettable gourmet tour for you:

• Routes that include gastronomic hotspots: the earth ovens from Santiago Tianguistenco, in which barbacoa is cooked, the pulque "brewers" of Tlaxcala, the vanilla orchid fields of Papantla...
• Guides who know where to eat traditional food and places where people still know and cook very old recipes
• Cooking classes with locals (ordinary people) and top chefs