When Sona first told me she’d booked a week long cooking honeymoon to Puebla, Mexico, I thought it was going to be a bit dull. But it was so much fun. After getting to Mexico City, we took a bus to Puebla, navigated the subway system to the airport on the way back, and even took a quick trip to El Popo, an active volcano.
We stayed at a boutique hotel called Mesones Sacristia, with a dark blue exterior, large archways, and gorgeously designed rooms. We got breakfast in bed—my favorite was chilaquiles with a large glass of jugo de tornonja—AKA, grapefruit juice. The cooking school was pretty awesome, down the stairs from our room. We learned how to make everything from tortillas, sauces, margaritas to Puebla’s signature dish: Mole Poblano. I thought Mole was a just a sauce, but it’ more like a complete meal blended into a delicious sauce, that’s then lathered into another meal.
Everyone was really friendly, and one of the chefs at the cooking school even went with us to a Lucha Libre Mexican Wrestling Smackdown that I was super stoked about going to.
In the photo above, Sona almost burned down the kitchen by intentionally setting fire to a tortilla. Sona keeps claiming that this is part of the recipe, but I think that the truth is pretty self-evident in this photo.
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