Long-time Brattleboro resident, Mimi Marchev, will lead a tour of Oaxaca to explore the region’s culture and its cuisine from January 15 to 23, 2025. The trip is coordinated by Travel Fever Tours of Putney.
Oaxaca has become a leading culinary destination, both for Mexicans and for visitors from the United States. Its reputation is well deserved, but it is based on much more than a collection of top restaurants. Oaxaca’s cuisine has sprung from the area’s strong indigenous roots; notably from the Zapotec and Mixtec people. Food is not merely sustenance in Oaxaca; it is an expression of heritage, identity, and community.
The nine-day trip will naturally feature meals at some top restaurants and cooking classes, but it will go much further than this. The group will see how traditional foods are prepared in villages outside the city of Oaxaca, visiting public markets, village homes, food cooperatives, and mezcal distilleries.
Before retiring to Mexico, tour Leader Mimi Marchev worked for SIT, in Chile, Mexico and in Brattleboro. She was the academic director for SIT’s college semester abroad programs in Oaxaca for six years before coming to Brattleboro as Dean for Latin America. She now lives full-time in Oaxaca.
More information about the tour is available on the Travel Fever Tours website at www.travelfevertours.com/mexico. Tour size is limited to 12.
