Cooking Classes

Cooking Classes

Provence

Option 1 – AVIGNON + CHATEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE

8.00 am: Appointment in a charming restaurant located in the centre of Avignon. (you will make your own way to the restaurant).
Meet and greet by the Chef and registration of the trainees.
Creation of the recipe cards to be performed. (Theoretical demonstration with Practice).
During the Apéritif, various ideas and comments will be exchanged about the course. You will learn how you can accommodate the meal with wine.
Lunch (drinks included) with the Chef and informal talk.
3.00 pm: pick up by a minibus.
Your English speaking driver/guide will take you to the wine road.
Wine-tasting in a cellar in Tavel, first Rosé wine in France, or, in Beaumes-de-Venise, exceptional soil located at the foot of the majestic Dentelles de Montmirail and the Mont Ventoux.
Continue to Châteauneuf-du-Pape for wine-tasting in a cellar, called «the 13 vine-plant’s country».
In each cellar, you will discover the history of the house and the guide or the wine owner will offer you a visit of the winery with explanations about the harvest, the AOC Côtes du Rhônes…
7.00 pm: drop off at the hotel.

OPTION 2 – VENASQUE

9.00 am : Pick up at the hotel by a private vehicle and a friendly English speaking driver/ licensed guide.Enjoy an intimate cooking class in the tiny kitchen of a Auberge in Venasque, to explore the fundamentals of Mediterranean cooking, marrying flavours, utilizing the best foods from the markets, respecting the great French traditions.
Lunch (drinks included).
Visit of Roussillon, famous for its red and yellow ochre cliffs, an unusual natural landscape.
Visit Gordes, perched village in Luberon, one of «the most beautiful villages in France», completely made with dry stones.
6.00 pm : back to the hotel.

OPTION 3 – ST REMY DE PROVENCE

9.00 am : pick up at the hotel by a private vehicle and a friendly English speaking driver/ licensed guide.
Cooking lesson followed by a lunch (drinks included) in a 4* hotel in St Remy de Provence located in a six hectares parc, between laurels, hundred-years-old trees, rosebushes, olive trees and lavender, a place bathed by serenity. An old mas, a facade stone, a garden in thousand colours.
A gastronomic restaurant displays its creations that are often renewed under the influence of our inspiration, the seasons and the produce of our garden or market.
Visit of les Baux de Provence, village set upon a rock at 245 meters high. In the spectacular historical center : the museum of santons, the Hôtel des Porcelets, beautiful 16th century houses, the St Vincent Church …
Continue to Saint Remy de Provence and stop at the Antiques (Triumphal Arch and Funeral Monument) among olive trees, landscape painted several times by Van Gogh.