Icon of Mexican Cuisine: Oaxacan Mole with Chef Gino Garcia

Culinary Arts

Icon of Mexican Cuisine: Oaxacan Mole with Chef Gino Garcia

Cook up a full feast as you join cookbook author and mole master Gino Garcia.

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Meeting Times
  1. Sat, 2/15/2025 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM

Sat, 2/15/2025

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Type:
Class, No Prerequisite

Location:
Culinary Arts Studio

Interests:
Cooking

About

Working in groups, you'll tackle one of the more complex dishes in Mexican gastronomy, mole coloradito, which features more than 25 ingredients. Through this process, you'll learn about the cooking techniques that go into this iconic dish and how they can be applied to make nearly any Mexican mole. 

Mole as a food category tells an incredibly rich, complicated, and delicious story about Mexican gastronomy over many centuries — the social, cultural, and political influences that went into making it known as one of Mexico’s most recognizable dishes. 

Gino has taught classes on moles from around Mexico. Together, we'll break down this complex dish into easily understandable steps. 

On the menu: Mole coloradito alongside braised chicken. You'll shape and cook your own corn tortillas to sop up every last drop of mole on your plate. Gino will prepare arroz rojo and frijoles de olla ahead of time, so you'll have the traditional side dishes that make mole a complete meal.

Materials

A $25 materials fee, included in the price of the class, covers all ingredients. 

Class Policies

  • Ages 14 and up are welcome.
  • You must wear closed-toe shoes in the studio.
  • You must be registered for the class (no drop-ins).

BARN Policies

Instructors or Guides

Gino Garcia

Gino is a trained chef, culinary educator, and author of Disney Pixar’s Coco: The Official Cookbook. Gino’s style of cooking is inspired by his familial roots in Mexico and his upbringing in the agricultural regions of California’s Central Valley. Currently based out of Seattle, he enjoys hosting pop-up events celebrating regional cuisines of Mexico and Latin America, teaching cooking classes, and building community through food and storytelling. When he’s not teaching, he is busy spreading the gospel of his chef-created, glitter-infused chile salt brand, Salecito, which features lesser-known Mexican ingredients and flavor combinations that glam up snacks and beverages.
Before entering the cooking world, Gino worked as a consultant in the public health sector focusing on issues related to improved nutrition, food access, healthcare, and disease prevention in immigrant and BIPOC communities.

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