Join Maite and baker Eliceo Lara of Mexican Baking to celebrate the history of Mexico’s two most important ingredients: maize and chocolate. Prepare an earthy contemporary meal using both ingredients front and center as Maite and Eliceo weave stories from maize and chocolate’s mesoamerican origins, to their trajectory around the world and back to the Mexican table.
Menu:
Tlacoyos con Pollo en Mole (Black Bean Stuffed Masa with Chicken Mole)
Sol y Sombra Chocolate and Maize Mousse
About Eliceo Lara:
Born and raised in Mexico City, for the last seven years baker Eliceo Lara has been teaching Mexican bread and pastry classes to locals and travelers through in-person Airbnb Experiences and virtually via Zoom. Lara has hosted in-person classes for over 2,000 guests in his kitchen in Mexico City as well as in the United States, Canada, Spain, Portugal and France. His online classes have been enjoyed by over a thousand students from four different continents. His specialties are Pan Dulce and Tres Leches cake.
3 hours
$40
image: Cylinder Vessel with Palace Scene, Guatemala, Petén, Maya, 700–850, Los Angeles County Museum of Art