Our Chefs Certificate Program

Offered once a year in conjunction with Centro Culinario Ambrosía, Mexico's country's leading culinary institute, our four-day hands-on intensive for chefs and other food professionals is based in Mexico City, where participants will attend classes in Ambrosía's state-of-the-art kitchens and experience the best of the city's cutting edge cuisine. In addition to classes with Chef Abdiel Cervantes and his Ambrosía colleagues, workshop members will have access to the most exciting names in contemporary Mexican cuisine through our program of curated dining. Featured restaurants for the inaugural session include Aguila y Sol, Pujol, Paxia and Izote, whose award-winning chef/owners will be available to answer questions and offer a tour of their own kitchens.

The curriculum for the workshop, drawn from Ambrosía's six-month degree program in Mexican cuisine, covers cooking with chiles and flowers, Mexican spices, traditional and regional specialties, Mexican fusion cuisine, traditional desserts, chocolate making a unit on pairings with wine, tequila and mescal.

With a day trip to the village of Tepoztlán to explore the Sunday outdoor market and cook with local women, our Chefs Certificate program combines the best of urban and rural, sophisticated and traditional. Participants will not only earn a certificate from Ambrosía attesting to their completion of the course; they will gain unique experience and insight into the techniques and pre-Hispanic roots of a cuisine increasingly seen as part of the world's great culinary heritage.

Participants in the Chefs Certificate program may choose to stay on for Cocinar Mexicano's six-day Day of the Dead workshop in Tepoztlán and enjoy a 10% discount on the combined price, which includes all meals, airport transfers, ground transportation, classes, materials and first class accommodation. For specific dates and prices, click on our Practicalities page. Feel free to email us or phone if you have any questions.

© Cocinar Mexicano 2008