Learn Spanish and cook Mexican food

Immersive Spanish with Mexican Cooking series

Monthly fourth Monday of each month* in Rhyll Community Kitchen Kentish Town

*day may occasionally vary

In this finger lickin' Spanish monthly series for Spanish improvers you'll learn to cook a range of authentic Mexican food with our resident Mexican  cook Gil while building interactions, a selected Spanish grammar area, listening practise and a bundle of new words and phrases making sense in the setting in this one of a kind immersive Spanish lesson.

Level

Suitable for Spanish improvers with six months of study or travel speaking experiences (A2 level in the Common European Framework).

What to expect each month:

Menu

Range of curated dishes to introduce you to authentic Mexican cuisine from tacos, quesadilla, mole, birria and more.

Spanish

• Understand and practise a range of Spanish interactions to use in the kitchen.

• Practise and pick up words for ingredients and actions for preparing the dish.

• Listening practice to stories and instructions from the cook. 

• Centre on a selected grammar topic each month from the simple past, gerund, perfect tense or more. 

• Fully immerse yourself and enjoy a cooking class.

Glimpse of the night:

In groups of two or three you’ll have a hand at either all or several items from the menu of the month. You’ll warm up the selected vocabulary and grammar topic along with the verbs with an activity and worksheet Eg ‘Pásame…’ (pass me) ‘Cortamos las patatas’ (we chop the potatoes).  You’ll get listening practice as Gil introduces the dish and share a story along the way. Then you’ll get stuck into cooking, practising the ingredients and interactions as you to work as a team. At the end we’ll taste the food together and recap the Spanish used.  You’ll leave with more vivid Spanish and a new authentic Mexican recipe.

Dates

The upcoming dates are: 1 April, 20 April, 25 May, 22 June, 27 July

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Next event

Wednesday 1 April 6-9pm: Make a tortilla from scratch and prepare garnachas

Spanish topic: Imperative mood

Make a tortilla from scratch with white and blue corn flour. You will learn to make a range of simple dishes with your tortillas and take some to enjoy at home. Practise giving instructions with the imperative mood. 

Menu

Tortillas from scratch with blue and white maize flour

We will then make the following garnachas:

Quesadillas

Sopes

Tostada

Tlacoyos and requeson (cottage cheese)

Guarache

Fillings

Frijoles  - Beans

Salsa verde - Green salsa

Salsa roja - Red salsa

Queso fresco - Fresh cheese

Lechuga - Lettuce

Tutors:

Gil Camargo,  Mexican cook

Gil Camargo is a Mexican journalist who worked in media from 2006 to 2023. He served as LGBTQ+ Editor from 2015 to 2017 and edited the Music section (2016–2023) and Film/TV section (2018–2023) for Time Out México. He finished his work with Time Out in 2023, where he also contributed food reviews.

He has a deep love for food, having learned to cook from his grandmother and his mother — an influence that shaped both his personal life and his work as a food reviewer.

Carla Jones, immersive Spanish Teacher

Cara Jones has been leading immersive Spanish clases for nine years. She lived for a year of her primary years in the Canary Islands where she gained a ove of languages. She has studying Spanish, Portuguese and Geography at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge and qualified as a Spanish Teacher at the Institute of Education. She has taught in schools before setting up Stripey Spanish school.

She is deeply committed to building community around language learning and supporting people to build confidence and skill through enriching experiences.

“Learned so much, not only the language bit but also the cultural bit combined with the social experience! Your passion about Spanish teaching made my first Spanish learning experience an amazing one! Thanks a lot!”  - past student

Book online now

TIME LIMITED Introductory offer: £56 earlybird until Wednesday 25 March with code EARLYBIRDMEX (£66 introductory offer time limited, full cost £70).

One bursary assisted place is available on this class thanks to support by Rhyll Community Kitchen. This is for someone who otherwise would be prevented from participating. To apply email carla@stripeyspanish.com