Cooking Class + Mercado San Pedro Tour
Your morning starts at Cusco’s iconic San Pedro Market Peru’s most vibrant culinary bazaar where your private chef helps you hand-pick the freshest local ingredients. Back in an exclusive kitchen atelier, those ingredients become a full Peruvian meal, crafted by you. A visit to a local ceramics workshop adds a final, unexpected touch of Andean culture.
Difficulty: Easy
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EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
What makes this experience truly one of a kind.
This is the only culinary experience in Cusco where you don’t just taste Peruvian food you understand it, select it, and make it yourself.
At San Pedro Market, your private chef doesn’t give you a tour. They give you a key: to the native potatoes grown at altitude, the ají peppers with a dozen distinct profiles, the jungle herbs that have flavored Andean kitchens for centuries. Your palate does the learning.
Back in the kitchen atelier, tradition and modern technique come together in every dish. The meal ends as it deserves: a curated tasting of Peruvian wines and artisan pisco. Not just cooking a living story of Peru, told through flavor.
Your experience begins with a private transfer to Cusco's San Pedro Market, where your bilingual chef introduces you to the world of Peruvian culinary biodiversity. Together, you'll browse stalls of native potatoes (over 3,000 varieties grow in Peru), aromatic ají peppers, highland herbs, and exotic fruits from both the sierra and the Amazon with intentional tastings at every turn to train your palate.
From the market, you move to an exclusive kitchen atelier, where the ingredients you chose become the meal. Under the guidance of your chef, you'll prepare a full menu: a reinterpreted Andean causa, ceviche with seasonal produce, lomo saltado executed with professional precision, creamy quinoa with fresh herbs, and a dessert built on Peruvian cacao and high-altitude fruits.
The experience closes with an elegant tasting: Peruvian wines, signature pisco cocktails, and digestive Andean herbal infusions a final conversation between flavor and culture. As a closing flourish, a hands-on ceramics workshop connects the culinary journey to Peru's living artisan tradition.
- Comfortable, layered clothing (Cusco sits at 11,000 ft mornings are cool)
- Hat or light beanie
- Sunglasses
- Comfortable closed-toe shoes
- Small daypack for personal items
- Sunscreen (SPF 50+ recommended at altitude)
- ID and a small amount of cash
- 100% private or small-group experience
- Certified bilingual chef (English-speaking)
- Guided market tastings
- Hand-selected organic ingredients
- Full cooking workshop with personalized instruction
- Gourmet plated meal with wine & pisco pairing
- Personal medications and items
- Gratuities (discretionary)
- Accommodations