Private Cooking Experience in Salvador

Experience the special flavor of Salvador. Enjoy and participate in a special cooking experience with local Brazilian residents. The city of São Salvador da Bahia emanates the heritage left by African, Portuguese and indigenous legacies. You will visit a local seafood market to learn about fish used in traditional recipes.  You will also stop at local produce vendors choosing the best vegetables and fruit to use in the traditional dish.  You will proceed to a local family residence, an Afro-Brazilian family savors the flavors of the African Diaspora, or as our ancestors would say it, the ajeum - eating is sacred).

Learn and watch the local way of cooking and colorful traditional food while enjoying a great informal conversation about local city life and the history of the area.

Learn to cook traditional Brazilian dishes during this 5-hour experience in Salvador. With your local guide and a host family, visit the local seafood market learn about the best type of fish to use for traditional recipes such as 'moqueca', or fish stew. Stop by a local produce vendor to choose vegetables for the stew and fruit to use in 'capirinhas', a traditional Brazilian drink made with sugar cane liquor. Back at the host family's house, engage in friendly, informal conversation about the history and culture of Salvador. Learn the secrets behind making a perfect fish stew, then sit down to eat.

Stop At:

• Sao Joaquim market, Av. Frederico Pontes, s/n Comércio, Salvador, State of Bahia Brazil

Sample Menu

• Caipirinha - Delicious drink made whit tropical fruits, shugar and shugarcane cachaça.
• Fish Moqueca - Fish Moqueca cooked with vegetables, various seasonings and palm oil. A typical Bahia dish left as an African heritage.
• Pirão de Farinha - Delicious delicacy made with moqueca broth and manioc flour.
• Rice - White rice with spices.
• Farofa - Manioc Flour toasted with palm oil and onions
• coconut candy - coconuts candy made with sugar cane and cloves