Cooking Class with Mari Carmen

There is a way to discover Valladolid that is not in any travel guide. It begins at the municipal market with Mari Carmen, Posada San Juan’s head cook and a lifelong Vallisoletana, who knows every stall, every product and every story behind what this city eats.

The market is a world of its own. Chiles, spices, chocolates, regional sweets, sauces tasted right there. And something few visitors notice: most conversations are in Maya. This is not a tourist market, it is where Valladolid buys what it eats.

Back at the hotel, a short break before entering the kitchen. There, with Mari Carmen as your guide, you will prepare the dishes that define Yucatecan gastronomy: lomitos de Valladolid or cochinita pibil, papadzules with pumpkin seed and tomato sauce, and sicil-pac, a Yucatecan pumpkin seed and tomato hummus that surprises anyone tasting it for the first time. For dessert, the sweets you chose at the market in the morning.

To finish, you prepare the cocktail yourself, with mezcal or alcohol-free, as you prefer. Then the table is ready.

You do not leave only with recipes. You leave with the criteria for choosing ingredients, the technique of someone who has cooked them all her life, and a morning that is, in itself, a portrait of Valladolid and its traditional Yucatecan cuisine.

Yucatecan cooking class in Valladolid, available exclusively for guests of Hotel Posada San Juan, Yucatan.

• Market visit 9:30 – 10:45 AM
• Cooking class 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
• Led by Mari Carmen
• Total price From $250 USD