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Learning to cook Thai food – TeakDoor.com – The Thailand Forum

Learning to cook Thai food – TeakDoor.com – The Thailand Forum.

Most of these courses include a morning trip to the local Thai market to buy food that you will be cooking, some include daily transportation to and from your hotel for free and some don’t.
All of these courses expect you to eat what you and your fellow learning chefs have cooked, so if you see me at one of these courses your best bet is to demand a refund and don’t die of food poisoning.

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

Michelin-Star Cooking Classes – The Kitchen at Parsons Green GALLERY

via trendhunter: The Kitchen at Parsons Green
It isn’t every day that the average home cook gets to learn how to cook a week’s worth of locally-sourced gourmet food from a prestigious chef who has multiple Michelin stars under his belt–unless, of course, you’re taking classes at The Kitchen at Parsons Green from Thierry Laborde.

Local Chef Offers Classes, Event Catering & Recipes

Jeff Wampler of Eclecdish.com offers a series of classes from knife skills to how to create babyfood on top of at home catering and some really interesting recipes, but mostly he’s a stay at home dad.

Team-building Iron-chef Style

at Sous Kitchen

“We had a wonderful time at Sous Kitchen’s Iron Chef competition. It was a great opportunity for new people to get to know each other. We even learned about some of the old timers. Everyone got a lot out of it.” Said Kristine, a Senior Vice President in the Financial Services Industry.

Now that’s my idea of an offsite!

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.

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

Culinary Arts, Pastry, and Cooking School in New York City – The FCI

Culinary Arts, Pastry, and Cooking School in New York City – The FCI

The French Culinary Institute is a chef school where a world-class faculty, a dedication to the highest standards of excellence, extraordinary talent, and intense, Total ImmersionSM training converge in one exciting experience that’s unlike any other in the industry. No other culinary art or pastry school prepares you for a satisfying, inspiring, highly successful career quite like The French Culinary Institute in New York City.

Getting Your Hands in the Food

…or how about some cooking classes before the foodfests of the holiday arrive.  If you’re in the Palo Alto area there are two offerings I’ve found over the last couple of days. 

Main Course Cooking Classes
An amazing assortment of quick easy meals, holiday sweets, and such comfort food such as soups and bread.

Palo Alto Adult School: Cooking
From ethnic cooking, holiday sweets, and even how to learn to wield the chef’s knife.

Draeger’s Cooking Classes

Kate Hill’s French Kitchen Adventures

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.