Hacienda Zotoluca Pulque and Regional Cooking Workshop

The regional cooking workshop at Hacienda Zotoluca runs three hours on the hacienda grounds in the Tepeapulco municipality of Hidalgo, Mexico, combining a hands-on cooking session with the tastings offered on the hacienda's shorter pulque tour. The workshop centers on regional dishes built around maguey-based ingredients, guiding participants through preparing dishes that incorporate aguamiel, maguey flowers, or other agave byproducts alongside the more familiar pulque itself, tying the cooking directly to the hacienda's own production. Once the cooking portion concludes, participants move to a pulque and curado tasting flight similar to the hacienda's standalone tasting experience, sampling plain pulque alongside fruit-and-nut curados. A honey tasting from the hacienda's own hives follows, and the workshop closes with a tour of the hacienda grounds and tinacal, giving participants the fermentation-hall context behind the pulque used in the cooking session. Groups are kept small given the hands-on cooking format, guided primarily in Spanish, with a moderate pace that allows time for both the cooking instruction and the tastings that follow. The MXN 750 price covers ingredients, instruction, the tasting flight, and the honey tasting, but does not include transport to the hacienda, which sits along the Apan-Tepeapulco road outside central Tepeapulco. Dietary substitutions are limited given the workshop is built specifically around maguey-based ingredients and pulque, though participants who prefer not to drink alcohol can still take part in the cooking and honey-tasting portions. The workshop runs year-round, with weekends offering the most reliable schedule, since Hacienda Zotoluca prioritizes weekend availability for its workshops over weekdays.