Course activities in North America
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Habla Hispana
Offers language classes and can incorporate walking tours and cooking classes.
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Savvy Gourmet
Whether you're looking to learn wine history, knife skills or hands-on seafood prep, Savvy's got it.
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Roccatti
Roccatti is a serious culinary school that irregularly has three-hour and three-day classes throughout the year. More practical is arranging a private lesson. A taxi from Monterrey is M$70.
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Language Immersion School
An American-owned school, it offers Spanish courses centered around learning the city, traveling around the state, doing outdoor activities and taking Mexican cooking classes. Heads up – there is no sign outside.
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Laguna Culinary Arts
If you plan to cook for yourself in Laguna, consider a class at the Laguna Culinary Arts, which has both introductory three-hour classes as well as daylong and multi-day options. Call for schedule and price information.
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Cocinar Mexicano
Closer to Mexico City, in the small village of Tepotztlán, transplanted New Yorker Magda Bogin runs Cocinar Mexicano. This program includes weeklong classes and weekend courses specially designed for travelers.
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Cooking Classes
One-day classes in traditional Mexican cooking (around $850) are held monthly May through July at El Arrayán Cocina Tradicional. The fee includes breakfast, instruction in the restaurant's kitchen, take-home recipes and a full meal.
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Centro Culinario Ambrosia
Cooking courses are held in a grand historic building, both for professional and amateur chefs and cooks. Courses in English were introduced in April 2008. There is also a restaurant on site where you can sample the service and dishes first-hand.
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La Casa de los Sabores
Pilar Cabrera, owner of La Olla restaurant, gives classes from 9:30am to 2pm on Tuesday and Thursday at her guesthouse in central Oaxaca. Participants (minimum four, maximum eight) prepare and eat one of 15 five-course Mexican or Oaxacan menus on offer, usually including some vegetarian dishes.
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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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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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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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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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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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