The French House Party offers the ultimate hands-on gastronomic vacation: a unique opportunity for cookery lessons from top-class, award-winning chefs in classic French cuisine whilst staying at a stylish, two hundred year old Carcassonne farmhouse, set in the stunning environment of South West France.

Less than two hours from Paris, the Loire Valley has always been a place of pleasure, refinement, art and spectacular gastronomy. Parfum de France is a small language school offering French themed courses associating culture and art de vivre, which includes cooking holidays.

Join top food writer Mary Cadogan and husband Mick at home in rural France and share their love of good seasonal ingredients, cooked simply and well. Mary will share some of her favourite recipes as you cook and eat dishes that you’ll be confident to make at home for family and friends again and again. This isn’t chefs’ food, this is inspirational home cooking at its best . . .

We have created a Cookery Course, that is more of a Food Experience, which taps into the Alpine way of life. By visiting local artisans and vineyards across the Savoie area, and into the Italian Aosta valley, you will gain hands on experience, and knowledge of both French & Italian cuisine.

Seven wonderful days spent in the heart of rural France, in the small village of Ambeyrac, learning French cuisine. Your host and tutor for the week will be Anne Dyson who has lived out there for many years and is experienced in French cooking including cordon bleu, nouvelle cuisine and French peasant fare. Seasonal food incorporating the freshest local produce is at the top of the menu. Not only will you learn to cook some great recipes but you will be able to truly relax in this tranquil region of France, away from the stresses of modern life.

Fancy learning to cook in Tuscany, making foie gras in France or Tapas in Spain? How about cooking with local women in Turkey or making pizza & gelato in Italy?

Les Ruches French Cookery Holidays are based in the grounds of an Eighteenth century farmhouse where there is a traditional French kitchen garden full of fresh produce for you to use, as well as a variety of fruit trees and soft fruit. You will discover how to maximise the flavour of traditional French cuisine, enhance your cooking skills whilst having fun in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.

If you are looking for a weekend away, ideas for a break, or the ideal luxury gift then Weekend Break is the solution with so many different packages it provides the opportunity to really indulge yourself in an exceptional few days. The most welcoming hotels, the best restaurants of Bordeaux, and the most interesting places to relax or to visit have been selected for your enjoyment. Weekend Break organises more than forty weekend packages of two or three days duration which are all inclusive stays in four star hotels (or the equivalent), with visits to the chateaus of the Bordeaux vineyards, wine tasting of the Grands crus vintages, gourmet dinners . . . with leisure activities such as golf, spa health sessions, city and heritage discovery.

The best way to discover Bordeaux and the surounding area is simply to let yourself fall under the charm of its rich, complex identity forged over the centuries by numerous influences whilst enjoying the relaxation and pleasures of a wine and culinary vacation at Chateau Lavergne.

Cooking classses in France that are unique in that there is no pre-set, standardized program. The classes will be ustomized to the guests and the menus you learn with the chefs wil be to the skill and interest level of each group. You are able to work with a variety of chefs, in multiple kitchen locations. You will have cooking lessons, and lessons in baking and breads.

This informal workshop is run in English or French by Marlène, your host and former wine-buyer. Passionate about food, experienced both in teaching and in cooking, she is dedicated to sharing with you traditional French home cooking techniques and recipes that she learnt from her grandma and mum, and from her numerous travels around France.

Chef Patrick Payet will greet you in his superbly furnished house in Cavaillon, and day by day the team will help you to discover the characteristic way of life of the Provencal people whilst during the evenings Patrick will be displaying his culinary art and disclosing the secrets of Provencal cuisine, whilst you enjoy several glasses of Chardonnay!

Gourmet Traveler specialises in small, personalised culinary tours, of between six to twelve people. There are two culinary tours to choose from. Provence where you will be exploring the best that this rich region has to offer and the Cote d' Azur known as as the playground of the rich and famous but also known for its fabulous food.

Goholidayfrance wine tours specialise in helping you discover only the finest wines from a little known part of southern France - the Corbiéres and Minervois wine regions of the Languedoc. Chef and food stylist, Sasha Hazael, of goholidayfrance will introduce you to some fine wines you are unlikely to have come across whilst also showing you some of the finest of gourmet cooking.

Cooking in the Languedoc region of France with Sasha Hazael, Chef and food stylist. A special cooking holiday as an individual itinerary will be created for you, to take into account all of your interests. It means you can have however many days of cooking as you like interspersed with days for sightseeing or just relaxing and enjoying your surroundings and the tranquil French way of life . . . a feast for all the senses with goholidayfrance cooking holidays.

Active Gourmet Holidays give you the choice of over eleven different holidays to choose from. Something to suit everyone's tastes - the regions of Provence, Languedoc-Roussillon, Bordeaux, Loire and Paris.

Food writer, Cordon Bleu trained cook and longtime French resident Rosa Jackson invites you to join her for a market tour and a cooking class in her beautifully renovated Seventeenth century apartment, steps from the vibrant food market and the Quai des Etats-Unis.

A relaxed friendly cooking holiday where you will soak up the French life and learn to cook with an English chef in the Dordogne. If you want to cook and present dishes like professional and TV chefs but don't think you have the skills, you will learn how on your cooking holiday in France. Set in a magnificent converted barn in the Dordogne countryside, you will be cooking some great classic and contemporary dishes from France and around the world.