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Cooking in Provence with chef Philippe Gion – Teaching The best of Provencal recipes since 1996

 

More than just recipes and techniques, this adventure introduces you to the best of Provencal way of life – a life based around friends, the kitchen, wonderful food prepared from the freshest local ingredients, good wines and amazing liquors, warm nights and fun

By the end of the week you will have learned a whole new way of living and eating. You will go home with your own cookbook, personalized with photographs of you and your friends, cooking and travelling with Philippe. But best of all, you will go home with wonderful memories of a great time in the warm sun of Provence or of la Côte d’Azur.

www.ArtandCookingClassesinFrance.com

Charles Chocolates

Charles Chocolates offers Factory Tours

Every Wednesday and Saturday, at 11:30 am and 2:30 pm, we offer a free guided factory tour of our production facility. You’ll be able to watch as our chocolatiers are in full production in our kitchen, observe various chocolates being made, and learn how hand-crafted, artisan chocolates and confections are made at Charles Chocolates. The tour will end with an interactive question and answer session. Tours will happen twice daily at 11:30 am and 2:30 pm every Wednesday and Saturday.

Learning to Cook, With Time Left to See Paris

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/dining/22fran.html?ref=dining

“SERIOUS cooks know they can go off to France and take immersion courses, but until recently, I hadn’t realized that it is possible to take quickie cooking classes: a few hours, a half day or a day.

For Mario Batali, It’s Molto Michigan

From NYTimes

body of water behind him is not Lake Como, but rather Grand Traverse Bay, and the scene is not the countryside of Northern Italy but the wilderness of northern Michigan where Mr. Batali spends his summers and most holidays cooking for family and friends

My Dad, the French chef

From the Times (London): About a cooking course in Provence led by a Michelin-starred chef.

My Dad, the French chef

Paris bistro: now no anglophones will be able to get in

Bistronomy – New York Times

San Francisco: Tartine Bakery – New York Times

Mark Bittman claims Tartine is the best bakery in the US.  Do you suppose he has tried them all?

San Francisco: Tartine Bakery – New York Times

 ”In a city known for bakeries, bread and breakfasts, the scene just continues to get better. For whatever reason — gold miners ate big breakfasts? the hills build morning appetites? the sea air? — San Francisco has always had breakfast food worth traveling for.”

Independent (London): Gordon Ramsey to open French Restaurant?

Independent Online Edition > Business News

“Gordon Ramsay, the UK’s best-known chef, could be about to achieve the culinary equivalent of sending coals to Newcastle. “

Restaurant Stéphane Derbord

Chocolate & Zucchini: Lunch in Dijon 

To the side were fresh twigs of thyme and rosemary for you to nibble on, or just let their perfume rise up to your delicate nostrils as you ate.

El Bulli Bulli

Dinner at El Bulli

“I remember reading about El Bulli four or five years ago in the French newspaper Le Monde. I remember the yearning, and I remember the pang that followed closely: considering the small number of guests that the restaurant could accomodate each season, the dream seemed out of reach. But a few years later, I learned from a well-informed friend that getting a reservation was a bit like playing the lottery: the odds were low, but it didn’t cost much to try (see below).

And so I played, I won, and this is how Maxence and I found ourselves flying to Barcelona last weekend with three of our friends.”