Cooking Classes

Flavor Logic

Cook anywhere. With anything.

The idea

Most recipes tell you what to do. Flavor Logic teaches you why it works.

This is not a traditional cooking class. There are no rigid techniques to memorize, no dishes you'll never make again at home. Instead, you'll learn the underlying logic of Ecuadorian cooking, the structure behind the flavor, the reasoning behind each step, so that when you're back in your own kitchen, with your own ingredients, you can recreate the essence of what you tasted here.

The meal that comes at the end is part of it. Everything on the table, you made.

What you take home

A printed recipe for each dish, with full instructions and substitution notes. And a small keepsake from the kitchen to remember the afternoon by.

Module I · A single session

From the Map

One afternoon. Four dishes. Four regions of Ecuador on one table.

The meal moves through the country from the inside: an encocado de camarón from the Galápagos served in a plantain tartlet, encebollado, the fish broth from the coast ranked among the world's finest soups, seco de pollo from the Andean highlands, and buñuelos de yuca, a cassava fritter from the Amazon that closes the meal the way the jungle closes around you: slowly, completely, without warning.

You will prepare each dish yourself. I guide you through the logic behind every technique so that you can recreate these flavors at home, with whatever your local market offers.

Duration: 4 hours
Group size: Max. 8
Price: USD 75 / person
Lead time: 8 days advance
Language: English

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Module II · 3-session module · For vegans and plant-based eaters

The Same Table

Ecuador's most iconic dishes were not built around meat. They were built around technique.

The slow refrito, the long simmer, the precise moment when a sauce becomes something else entirely.

The Same Table takes six of Ecuador's most beloved recipes and rebuilds them from the inside. No animal products. No shortcuts. The same flavor architecture, reconstructed with intention.

This module is for those who want to understand Ecuadorian cuisine not as a list of ingredients to avoid, but as a culinary tradition rich enough to hold its own without them. You will braise, simmer, and fry your way through the country's canon and leave with the logic to keep cooking it at home.

Sessions: 3
Per session: 2 dishes
Price: USD 150 / module
Group size: Max. 8
Language: English
Registration: By date

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Module III · 3-session module · For those who want to understand a country through its pots

Liquid Ecuador

A lifetime of meaning.

In Ecuador, soup is not a starter. It is the meal, the medicine, and the memory. It is what appears on the stove when someone is sick, when family arrives, when there is not much in the kitchen but there is always enough for a pot. It is the smell that means home before you even open the door.

These are not restaurant recipes. They are the kind of cooking that has been passed down without being written down, ancestral, unhurried, built entirely from what the land offers. The logic behind each one is older than any cookbook.

Liquid Ecuador is five of these soups, made from scratch, in three sessions. Nothing left out.

Sessions: 3
Price: USD 150
Group size: Max. 8
Language: English
Registration: By date

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