This informal workshop is run in English or French by Marlène. Passionate about food, experienced both in teaching and in cooking, she is dedicated to sharing with you traditional French home cooking techniques and recipes: from traditional French dishes and sauces to more specific south west cuisine, without forgetting classic French pastry. Full board 3 nights or 6 nights holidays, in a beautifully renovated guest house in the heart of Gascony. Just 1 hour from Bordeaux.

Flavours of France offers a culinary experience like no other. You learn to cook sensational food in charming locations where the locals have a natural joie de vivre and you will be sure to experience a real taste of French life.

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.

Superb food, using the finest local produce, matched with the best quality wines of the Languedoc. This accompanied with the fantastic backdrop of Domaine La Veronique and the wonders of the Languedoc will create a cooking holiday you will never forget.

A unique home based cooking school located in the medieval village of Kerrouet in central Brittany which focuses on gourmet quality French and modern European cuisine with students encouraged to get actively involved in all areas of food preparation. Courses are varied to ensure everyone gains hands on cooking experience with the Michelin trained chef.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.