Chef’s Table

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Friday, May 29

A six-course dinner featuring Oaxacan ingredients paired with wild mezcal at Rancho Aurora

Ensalada de Tomates Flor de Calabaza

Our latest news from the kitchen

This spring we launched specialty cooking classes at the ranch: four focused, full-day experiences, each built around one of Oaxaca's most important culinary traditions. Designed for private groups, it’s a hands-on journey from start to finish.

DAY EXPERIENCE

Market Tour & Cooking Class

A full day of Oaxacan cooking, from the market to kitchen and recipes to take home.

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Dia de Muertos

October 25th-november 3rd, 2026

During this season in Oaxaca, families build altars to honor their loved ones, prepare the foods that belonged to the transcended, visit gravesides and celebrate together through ritual and long-standing traditions. This isn't a tour where you observe from the outside. This is Kaelin's invitation into that world as part of their family.

Chef Kaelin grew up in Etla between his mother's cooking school and his father's tomato ranch. Día de Muertos is his favorite time of year. Every Day of the Dead, he celebrates with the Oaxacan families and artisans he's known for years, cooking, eating and sharing at their tables. On this journey, he brings you into those relationships.

Since 1994

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OUR STORY

Susana Trilling arrived in Oaxaca in the late 1980s with a question: how do you learn to cook in a place that isn't yours? She answered by settling in, building real relationships and opening her home to students. Thirty years later, Rancho Aurora remains the center of everything we do. Today, led by her son Kaelin, Seasons of My Heart offers cooking classes, week-long immersions and culinary tours throughout Mexico and Europe. But the foundation hasn't changed: the belief that food is learned best when you're sitting at the table with the people who know it.

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Oaxaca Cooking School Seasons of My Heart

COOKING CLASSES

Explore our themed cooking classes at our ranch in the beautiful Etla Valley

FOOD TOURS

Seasonal curated tours to culinary destinations in Oaxaca, Mexico City, Yucatán and Europe

CHEF’S INTENSIVE

We teach young and seasoned chefs in the Oaxacan and Mexican food traditions

CHef’s Table

A dinner experience at the ranch celebrating our native and local ingredients

A Journey Through the Vine

SICILY WIne Harvest

Join us for an unforgettable 10-day tour exploring Sicily’s terroir through its food traditions, wine making heritage and culinary excellence.

From the mineral slopes of Mount Etna to the sun-drenched vineyards of the Marsala coast, every glass tells a story of the island’s ancient soil. Alongside master wine makers and local sommeliers, we’ll explore historic cellars and seaside estates. Uncovering Sicily’s layered heritage through its bold reds and volcanic whites. Every tasting is a blend of tradition paired with the incredibly vast Sicilian cuisine.

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HOST

Kaelin Ulrich Trilling
Chef and Director of Seasons of My Heart

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LOCAL GUIDE

Gabriella Becchina
Art Historian and Sicily expert

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WINE MAKER & AUTHOR

Benjamin Spencer
Etna Wine School

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Chef Kaelin’s Newsletter

SOMH Relleno Blanco Yucateco

Relleno Blanco: A dish I'd never heard before

Cooking underground in Pomuch, Campeche: Relleno Blanco Yucateco
I never know what we're going to cook at Diego's.

That's part of why I love going. Our Yucatán tour always passes through Campeche, the colonial city with a vibrant market, before we drive 40 minutes north to Pomuch, a small Mayan village.

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