In addition to some traditions, architecture and even a sense of humor very similar on both sides, the Mediterranean is understood, too, through its flavors. Both the European banks as the most exotic of North Africa, an essential part of Mediterranean culture dishes and delicacies are such a bunch of unique places to teach those who dream of perfect holiday dress with a few hours in the kitchen.
In France’s culinary tradition has always been a pioneer, hence not surprising to find many small hotels and even rural farms in which learning to develop cheese, wine, foie gras and other delicacies. A total immersion in the Provencal cuisine is what, a stone’s throw of Nice, offers Cooking with Friends in France, where over a week combined with visits to markets in food specialty shops, gourmet restaurants and, of The classes of professional chefs, taking place in the country villa in which participants are accommodated.
Also Italy is a culinary destination as the first in its major cities, including through the reception will not be difficult to locate schools that spend a few hours to get pasta al dente. Something more in depth, and infinitely more exclusive, is proposing courses of Chef Giuliano Hazan cooking in the magnificent setting of the Renaissance Villa Giona, outside Verona. Hazan, his wife and Marilisa Allegrini winemaker, slowly a week in which the flavors fully live, wine and style of Italian life, staying in the town and participating in a program succulent cultural and gastronomic tours ranging from a small producer to the award-winning restaurants.
On the outskirts of Florence, the Villa San Michele, built in the fifteenth century by the Franciscans, is now an exquisite hotel in many respects. Because, besides being a delight for accommodation, can attend classes in the old dryer lemons monks taught chef, Attilio Di Fabrizio, owner and master, of course, a great Castilian. They come in three to six days, with even a course for children and a single kitchen.
Neither at home missing the good proposals. The romantic Hacienda Na Xamena in Ibiza also organizes a fun session in the kitchen of chef’s hand in an outdoor kitchen in front of a sea and cliffs that are a scandal.
They are also undeniably the Mediterranean cous cous, tagines and cakes, in Morocco; you can learn to make many of these mansions converted into small hotels with charm known as riads. In the heart of the medina of Fez, some as exquisite as the Dar Laarouss Tafilalet or organize tailor-made courses. You can also participate in workshops culinary Clock House, whose courses included in the markets of the souks to buy the freshest ingredients.
Cooking with Friends, Domaine de Bramafam, France
The courses, in a Provencal village only half an hour from Nice and Cannes, includes six nights accommodation at the property in half board, the five-day class for up to six participants and a host of culinary interest tours. Are held in spring and autumn, and cost € 1,950. In February also propose an around the world of the truffle. Also you can request one-day classes to order.
Chef Giuliano Hazan at Villa Giona, Verona, Italy
A week in a Renaissance villa cooking classes by the hand of the chef for a maximum of twelve participants, with accommodation in the house and visits to the best restaurants in the area and many local producers. They take place in autumn and cost € 3,720.
Villa San Michele, Florence, Italy
Courses of three to six days between May and October, this aristocratic villa in the hills of Fiesole. Ranging from € 1,125, with two nights accommodation, two mornings of course and meals with dishes prepared with the chef, and € 2,590, with five nights, the course and an activities program exclusivity in Florence and its surroundings.
Hacienda Na Xamena, Ibiza, Spain
Oceanfront, outdoor, weekly classes suggests three different fields: diet kitchen, ethnic, Ibiza … Each lasts three hours and costs 200 €, with the workshop and tasting of dishes prepared in addition to the most appropriate wines for each.
Cooking Classes in Fez
They tend to organize as old riads, such as Dar Tafilalet Laarouss or where Becqui Lahcen taught, which is open to whatever they want to learn how to prepare students in the time available, and accompanies them, before school, for the markets of the souks to familiarize yourself with the products. Given the success of these initiatives cooking in the city, has also opened a cooking school at Cafe Clock, with courses in one day and taste the dishes prepared by 55 €, and the possibility of specific courses to local pastries, salted or proposed as tempting as learning to bake bread in an oven with several centuries behind him.
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The absolute luxury of cooking workshops, under the supervision of executive chef of Club del Doge, organizes far the exclusive Hotel Gritti Palace in Venice for their clients or for groups of up to 16 people.