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Offered languages
- Portuguese
- English
- Spanish
This experience offers something that few travelers ever have the opportunity to enjoy: a genuine invitation into the home of a local Bahian family.
Rather than attending a commercial cooking school, you will share stories, recipes, and traditions with people who have preserved Afro-Brazilian culinary heritage through generations.
The experience combines a guided visit to São Joaquim Market, hands-on cooking, cultural storytelling, and a shared family meal, creating meaningful connections that go far beyond traditional tourism.
It is an authentic journey into Bahia’s food, history, hospitality, and African roots—an experience that cannot be replicated in a restaurant, hotel, or professional kitchen.
Example Menu
Starter
Caipirinha
Delicious drink made whit tropical fruits, shugar and shugarcane cachaça.
Main
Fish Moqueca
Fish Moqueca cooked with vegetables, various seasonings and palm oil. A typical Bahia dish left as an African heritage.
Main
Pirão de Farinha
Delicious delicacy made with moqueca broth and manioc flour.
Main
Rice
White rice with spices.
Main
Farofa
Manioc Flour toasted with palm oil and onions
Dessert
coconut candy
coconuts candy made with sugar cane and cloves
Main
Banana Moqueca
Banana Moqueca: vegetarian Bahian stew of plantains in a creamy coconut and dendê sauce with tomatoes, peppers, and fresh herbs.
What's Included
Meeting and pickup
We need the name of the hotel independently if it's not on the area selected, we pick up all clients in all hotel around Salvador City or in Airbnb address.
What to expect
Far from commercial cooking schools and tourist restaurants, this authentic experience takes place inside a real family home, where recipes and traditions have been passed down through generations. Together with your hosts, learn how to prepare iconic Bahian dishes such as fish and shrimp moqueca, banana moqueca, pirão, rice, and dendê farofa. While cooking, discover how African, Indigenous, and Portuguese influences shaped one of Brazil’s richest culinary traditions.
Enjoy handmade tropical fruit caipirinhas, a traditional appetizer, a homemade Bahian dessert, and a relaxed meal shared around the table. More than a cooking class, this is a genuine cultural immersion offering authentic hospitality and a deeper understanding of Bahia’s food, heritage, and daily life.
Additional info
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
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Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Cancellation Policy
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Rating
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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