Edible Explorations

Amazing food. The owner, Rebecca, is now doing personal chef work as well. I was lucky enough to be invited over for one of those meals at my friends house. Maybe I can convince my wife to hire EE!

Rebecca recently did a client event for me in my home. Her easy going nature and her expertise made it a wonderful time for all. My clients are raving about how much fun it was to finally know what chili to use! She was fabulous.

I find Mexican cuisine amazing. I mean really, how many delicious permutations of corn, cheese, tomatoes, beans and peppers could you come up with?! Tacos, bureeetoes and quesahdilluhs don’t count, folks. And yet the richness and diversity of the fare is astounding.
Three hours with Edible Explorations unlocked the magic, we discovered it’s all about the spices! Offering cooking classes in a welcoming Oakland home, private group lessons and catering, Edible Explorations will take you for a ride with fresh, organic ingredients, authentic Oaxacan recipes and colorful context/​history.
The tamale session gave us a solid foundation for whipping up these pockets of corn goodness, and I’m now inspired to host my own tamale fiesta! At $ 40 – 60 (sliding scale), the investment for two meals, fun times and tasty education is outstanding.
I want seconds! Mole, you haven’t seen the last of me…

Edible catered our office holiday lunch and it was yummy! We wanted high quality, int’l (mexican/​latin american) faire, and a reasonable price. Becca made some wonderful suggestions for the menu, the food was fresh, authentic, delicious, and the price for a catered 4 course lunch was very reasonable, esp. compared to going to a restaurant. I would highly recommend using Edible for catering, especially if you want something unique.

I had a wonderful time with Rebecca at Edible Explorations Cooking Party. It was my friend’s birthday. We learned, cooked, ate and had very good time. Rebecca is a very nice person/​instructor, and makes you feel like home. It was a great culture experiences, too. We prepared the food from start to finish. It was so much fun… If you like Mexican food, it will be a great experience that you don’t want to miss. My husband always enjoys home cook meal. We made ever thing ours elf based on Rebecca’s instruction. I love Memelas — hand formed tortillas topped with stewed black beans, queso fresco, salsa, and avocado. The best===SO SO SO tasty! Mole verde is very tasty. so unique and fresh. Mexican hot chocolate is best hot chocolate that I ever had in my life. Rebecca uses high quality, and freshest ingredient. Thanks to my friend and Rebecca. What a great treat and awesome concept! I’m highly recommended to everybody.

Can you saw AUTHENTIC, Yummy, tasty and amazing all in one sentence… well, I just did and that is what Becca and Edible Explorations IS! It is an exploration into another world of Mexico that I had no idea was there until i started taking classes from Becca.
The unique chicken tamales we did with amazing mole sauce were to die for. We made rice once with a sprig of mint in it! who would have thought that rice could be so flavorful…
The most amazing thing I have eaten would have to be these things called MEMELAS They are fresh prepared masa (what you make for corn tortillas) hand flattened out, grilled on each side, then topped with her amazing refried black beans, home made verde (green) salsa and Queso fresca (fresh cheese) and topped with avocado… ok, i’m drooling now. oh! and we made fresh chile rellenos!!! with an amazing tomato sauce.
She also teaches you about the culture (which she tends to specify to Oaxacan) which I knew nothing about until taking some of her classes.
All organic food and local and great as a gift for someone (catering) or for a class to take and improve your friends and loved ones with tastes from Mexico that they have never tasted before!

This is an awesome catering company, that specializes in small cooking parties. The owner, Rebecca, specializes in traditional Oaxacan (Mexican) cooking. This is Margaret Mead meets Yan Can Cook. She comes to your home and teaches you and a group of friends how to make these amazing Oaxacan dishes, while giving you an anthropological and historical background to the region. At the end, you get to gorge on the best Mexican food ever! While some things I’ve heard of, like chicken mole, other things on our menu where totally new to me like this amazing Nopales salad with an anise-​lime dressing. Everything on the menu was an orgasmic experience. I hosted once, and was invited to another event (where I tasted her tamales… to die for), and it’s just a lot of fun. A really cool twist on the dinner party. Like I said before, this is traditional cooking, so you could translate that to slow cooking; the cooking parties take about three hours, but that is partially do the relaxed atmosphere, or at least at the events I’ve been apart of.