"The meal was better than anything we ate in a Oaxacan restaurant." [Photographs: Brian Yarvin] When I told a good friend that I was heading to Oaxaca on vacation, he asked "will you be taking cooking classes?" Of course! While we aren't cooking school junkies, I'm a cooking school regular and my wife attends often enough. It was in itself, a very good reason to travel there. We began our education at Seasons of My Heart, a large and almost charismatic school run by Susana Trilling, a former Manhattan chef, cookbook author, and television hostess. Susana greeted us in front of a hotel in Oaxaca city and loaded all 15 or 16 of us into a van.... More