Our main event for today was cooking class. We met our guide/teacher/chef along with the rest of our "class" outside of Santiago's historic Mercado Central. For the first part of the day, our guide took us through all of Santiago's different markets where we purchased the food we would use later in our cooking. This included everything from beef, seafood, and chicken to the fruits and vegetables.
We then went back to kitchen where we helped to prepare a 4-course meal of traditional chilean foods. We learned to make sopapillas with Chilean salsa, seafood and cheese empanadas, choclo (like a Chilean shepherd's pie, but with a corn puree crust on top), and a desert that had mini pies with manjate (like dulce de leche), meringue, and fresh fruit. It was very fun and the food was fantastic.
After that we hiked to the top of Cerro San Cristobal, which is one of the bigger "hills" in the middle of Santiago. It was a great hike and had fantastic views of the city.
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