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Chefparade
The best-known cookery school dealing with foreigners is Chefparade in Ferencváros. Course dates vary – consult the website – but they usually run from 10am to 1pm, including visiting a market and preparing a four-course lunch, and cost €50 per person. Courses at other times and of a longer duration can be organised in advance.
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Cook in Rio
Travelers have an opportunity to take a locally run cooking course, Cook in Rio. Run by Simone Theisen, who was the head chef and creator of the restaurant Fogo Carioca (now a bar), Cook in Rio teaches aspiring chefs how to make some of Brazil’s most famous dishes. Each one-day class runs from 11am to 4pm and includes the preparation of either moqueca (seafood stew) or feijoada completa (multi-dish black bean and pork stew). You’ll also learn how to make other sides and drinks including aipim frito (fried cassava slices), a perfect pot of rice, dessert and a masterful caipirinha (the secret is in the slicing of the lime). The best part is that you’ll get to devour…
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Cooking Classes
The multitalented Deepa runs cooking and henna classes from behind her Ayurvedic shop, Bahar. She is connected to the Saraswati Music School.
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Sangye's Kitchen Cooking Courses
Tibetan treats, with a different menu daily. Book one day in advance.
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Cooking Courses with the Chef Association
Penang has no organised cookery courses but you can contact the Chef Association to see if any of their chefs would be interested in giving a lesson or two. The earlier you get in touch with the association, the more likely you are to find an instructor. Prices are not set and will need to be agreed upon by you and the chef and will depend on the venue, menu, group number and number of lessons.
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Kak Rosnah's Kitchen
A great way to learn some local Malay and Bidayuh cooking. Classes are held in an old Malay kampung so in addition to cooking, you get a look at traditional Malay life. Classes are only held on Sunday. Email for address information.
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Khao Cooking School
Although located smack dab in the middle of Khao San, this new cooking school was started up by an authority on Thai food and features instruction on a wide variety of authentic dishes. Located directly behind D&D Inn.
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Hotel Krishna Niwas Cookery Classes
Sushma runs tremendous cookery classes for two hours, including meal. While Jairaj is an internationally renowned artist who teaches miniature and classical painting.
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International Meditation Club (Thailand)
New, modern centre offering lectures and activities aimed at English speakers. Regular beachside retreats on weekends.
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Diktynna Travel
Organises a range of cultural and ecotourism activities, including cooking classes.
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Vietnam Cookery Centre
This Cookery Centre offers a half-day initiation course for lunch or dinner involving five dishes and a souvenir handbook to remember the tricks of the trade. Lunch classes from 9.30am, dinner classes from 3.30pm. See the website for full details of the address and how to get here.
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Cookery Course - Hotel Equatorial
The best souvenir you can bring home from Melaka is the cuisine. The Hotel Equatorial runs the only cookery course in town, which is available both as part of a hotel package and as an independent course. Instruction in Nonya cooking is given at the hotel's Seri Peranakan Restaurant by its head chef, Bong Geok Choo.
The hotel package, the 'Wok and Walk', includes a one-night stay in a 'superior' room, one buffet breakfast, one Nonya set lunch, one buffet dinner, two cooking workshop sessions, a walking tour of historical Melaka and a souvenir cookbook. It's quite a bargain when you consider that the published price of a one-night stay in a superior room without all the…
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Adachi Kumihimo-kan
Kyoto’s most famous braidmaker, Adachi Kumihimo-kan has a gallery of fine items on display. Here you can weave your own braid on wooden hand looms. It takes about two hours, and the cost depends on the length of the class and what you make. Delicately woven kyō-kumihimo (Kyoto-style braid work) was developed in the Heian period for fastening kimono, but gradually spread to other ornamental applications. Today the braid is again most commonly used as obi-jime (the tie for kimono sashes). Reservations in Japanese are necessary.
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Estela Silva’s Mexican Home Cooking School
Estela Silva’s Mexican Home Cooking School teaches an intimate seven-day gastronomic course, with bilingual lessons focusing on traditional French-inflected Puebla cuisine. Tuition includes all meals, drinks, transportation from Puebla, plus six nights of lodging in comfortable private rooms with fireplaces. Classes take place in the Talavera-tiled kitchen of doña Estela’s hacienda-style home in Tlacochcalco, a village 10km south of Tlaxcala. Guests not participating in the course can stay at the house for M$8650.
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Maine Photographic Workshops
One of the world’s leading instructional centers in photography, film and digital media, this institute offers more than 250 workshops and master classes throughout the year, with classes for both beginners and professionals. Intensive one-week workshops (costing from $895 per week) are taught by leaders in their fields. Changing exhibitions of student and faculty work are displayed in Union Hall.
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India on the Menu
India on the Menu is a recommended five-day Indian cookery course offered by London-based On The Go Tours. The programme is based in Betim, just across the river from Panjim, and covers North and South Indian cuisines, Goan cuisine and a market tour. On the final day you can choose to be taught how to cook your favourite Indian dishes by the course tutor. Each of the cooking sessions lasts half a day (including lunch).
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Gruppo Storico Romano
If you’ve always fancied yourself a bit like Russell Crowe, you can hone your gladiatorial skills at Gruppo Storico Romano. An association of history enthusiasts, it has established Rome’s first gladiator school. Workshops, open to men and women, are in English and last two hours. The cost is between €25 and €75 per person, depending on the size of the group (one to one costs €100).
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WAK Japan
WAK Japan offers a wide variety of excellent introductions to Japanese culture: tea ceremony, ikebana (flower arrangement), trying on kimono, home visits, Japanese cooking, calligraphy, origami etc. Presenters/instructors will speak English or else interpreters are provided. Pick-up service is available from your lodgings. This is highly recommended.
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Kawara Juku
Kyoto is a great place to study Japanese. Kawara Juku is a friendly little school that offers three-month part-time courses for ¥85,000. Courses start in April, September and January. It also offers a summer intensive course for the same price. Joining a class here is a great way to meet people when you’re new in town.
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Oriental Hotel Cooking Centre
With an intimate setting, you might forget that you're in the Old Word of the Oriental. Daily classes begin with a lecture, followed by individual preparation. Considering the price, opt for the daily menu that contains more complex dishes, like hàw mòk (fish curry mousse), rather than basic phàt thai.
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Cambridge School of Culinary Arts
The recreation division of this professional school offers one-time courses focusing on seasonal meals such as ‘An American Gathering’ or on crucial cooking skills such as ‘All You Knead’ (basic breads). The most popular course, offered monthly, is based around cooking for couples. Located two blocks north of the Porter Sq T station.
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Amita-honten
Kyō-zōgan is a damascene technique of laying fine metals onto figures engraved on brass and can be tried at Amita-honten, just beside the Kyoto Handicraft Center on Marutamachi-dōri. The cost of making a small pendant is ¥3500 and it takes about an hour (it will be sent to you one week later).
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Culinary Arts Kitchen Studio
If you like nice kitchens, RISD's Culinary Arts Kitchen Studio offers classes that will not only refine your skills, but also provide plenty of opportunities to shove freshly made delights down your esophagus. These courses are held only a few times each semester, and you should enroll prior to class.
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Seasons of My Heart
This cooking school at a ranch in the Valle de Etla is run by American chef and Oaxacan food expert Susana Trilling. It offers classes in Mexican and Oaxacan cooking, from one-day group sessions (most Wednesdays) to weeklong courses, plus fascinating culinary tours around Oaxaca state and other Mexican regions.
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Aizen-Kōbō
Located in the Nishijin area, Aizen-Kōbō dyes indigo-blue ai-zome fabrics in a charming kyō-machiya (traditional Japanese town house). You can observe and try your hand at tie-dyeing a scarf (¥5565), which takes about an hour. Reservations should be made a few days in advance.
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