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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

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

My Dad, the French chef

At Home With Patricia Wells – Cooking classes in Paris and Provence, Cookbooks and Restaurant Reviews

We have lived in this tiny Provencal village for nearly 20 years, and never has the choice of pleasant, small family restaurants been better. This is a land of plenty, with the spicy Rhone wines leading the pack, and black truffles, fresh cherries, plump apricots and figs, and all manner of vegetables following close behind. So putting a simple but great meal on the table is child’s play.

Provence truffles

A group of bérets carries on heated discussions around mysterious pouches. As you approach the terrace, the air becomes more fragrant.

Trips and Meals Fit for Truffle Snufflers – New York Times

 Spending the dead of winter in Provence might not immediately appeal to foodies until they factor in black truffle season.

Kate Hill’s French Kitchen Adventures

Pig, Duck, Beef, Armagnac… the end of the work ‘Week in Gascony’ leads to Saturday’s market and later that evening to an FCI/all cooks/all out jammin’ in the French Kitchen. So in anticipation and to give ourselves a respite from the competition style eating we’ve been doing, I plan a day of leisurely swilling and sipping chez two friends of mine, 2 Sisters in Aquitaine.

Provençale Cuisine cooking classes and Foodlovers’ Getaways in Arles

In our culinary tours, we begin each week with a visit to the outdoor market of Arles, the largest in France with over 1300 merchants. There we choose our fresh ingredients for our first cooking classes. As the week progresses we visit local artisans such as the chocolate maker, or the potter, go wine-tasting at local wineries and learn from the men and women who have wine in their veins.

Provençal cuisine. Cooking school provence

Each day is designed to provide 3 – 5 hours of culinary instruction and actual meal preparation, with an emphasis on student participation. You will learn classic French methods using the flavors and techniques of Provençal cuisine.

Cooking classes, Cookbooks and Restaurant Reviews

As in previous years the 2007 classes begin with the Black Truffle workshop in January and include four Paris weeks, two classic cooking in Provence weeks, two Food and Fitness weeks, a Wine week and a Special Fish week where all cooking will be devoted especially to preparing spectacular fish meals.

Great Bistros of Provence – Provence | Travel + Leisure

Nothing compares to a languid lunch or a multicourse dinner in the French countryside. From Arles to Apt, Linda Dannenberg dishes up some of the most delicious—and charming—family-run restaurants in the south of France

From May 2006

By Linda Dannenberg