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Paris for 8 days at end of April, looking for lunch/dinner ideas
Why don't you try a cooking class? It's a great experience if you want to grab a true chunk of French culture. Try a world in a pan, cordon bleu, escoffier (three different budgets and types)
APRIL IN PARIS
hi, i saw a cooking tour that makes you prepare a menu related to architecture and then takes you on a tour of some important building in the neighborhood where the cooking studio is. check out a world in a pan
Foodie trip to paris - with 14-year old
during my last visit i took a cooking class with a world in a pan. there was a mother and daughter in the group too. we all had a market tour in a beautfiul nearby market, and the chef went out of her way to make the class fun for the girl too. check it out!
cooking classes/schools in paris?
i am a foodie and take cooking classes everwhere i go! i have taken several classes in paris, signed up for a market visit and cooking class with a world in a pan during my last visit. had great fun. it was the highlight of my stay.
We Love Paris -Need Help.
Even one day in Paris is worth it! One of my UK clients gave her wife a private cooking class for her birthday. They visited a market, prepared the food on a home, and had the meal with the host. They found it very exciting! You seldom get a chance to visit a French home when you're in a foreign country and this is a not to be missed opportunity. You may care to try A World in a Pan (www.aworldinapan.com) and tell Babess sent you. I have sent here amany of my clients and never had one disappointed!
Cheese newbie - where to begin?
My fiance and I took a cheese atelier class at a small cookery school in the 16th. We visited a cheese shop that has an incredible variety of cheeses (maybe all 365 that former President DeGaule mentioned!). The display of goat cheese is stuinning! The owner is an "afineur", and ages the cheeses in his shop.
We then tasted the cheeses with the right wines - and delicous bread - in the studio. Great experience! The atelier is called All about cheese and the cookery school is World in a pan.
We've been more adeventurous when buying cheese since we have retruned - although yes, you're right, it does not taste the same.
"Living" in the 6th for 12 days. M'aidez, s'il vous plait!!
Great area! I read you've been given very good advice: rue de Buci is wonderful! I have posted a picture of a skinny building rue Dauphine.
Hey, you should try taking cooking classes, which is what we did last fall. We had rented an apartment in the 5th (metro Sorbonne) and had signed up for several classes - my fiancee loves cooking. Then we tried to reproduce the menu in our mini-kitchen, dressing a very frenchy table with candles and all! It was lots of fun!
We took classes at a small cookery school (porte d'auteil) and the recipes were easy to replicate. We also signed up for a cheese atelier, which we truly enjoyed. Check it up, it's 15 minutes by cab (and 70 minutes if you walk along the Seine, which we did on the way back becuase of a metro strike, and loved). I guess it's a 20 minutes metro ride as well. The name is world ina pan. The woman also gives lots of good advice - it was our second trip to Paris and the first time we were renting a flat - and bear in mind that you do not have concierge services when you rent a flat!!!
Bon voyage!
What I'll call Country Brie
In the States, you mostly find pasteurized brie, which is why it tastes so different (in France you only find it in supermarkets).
True bries are made of raw cow milk and have a soft body. I say "bries" because there are many types of bries. I took an introduction to cheese course in a cooking school in Paris (all about cheese, in the are Brie de Maux (big wheel, 12 inches), and Brie de Melun (smaller, 8 inche,s and a bit thicker). Other types are brie de Coulonmiers, and ...
Brie should not smell that much, though, and I am surprised you had such an experience.
There are many smellier cheeses, such as the Epoises, from Burgogne, or the Munster, from Alsace. My guess is that the one you were proposed was too ripe! The ones we tasted from the "Afineur de fromage shop" (no word in English for "afineur", the person who ages the cheeses) were simply delicious.
B
One week in Loire Valley
Loire Valley: How wonderful! When you visit Amboise, don't miss BIGOT pastry shop, one of the best in France. They serve light meals, home made chocolate, delicious pastries. For a more consistent meal in the eveningm try Le Comptoir des Epices, opposite the entrance of the chateau.Quite a treat!
I was sent to both places by a French woman who runs a delightful cooking school in Paris (a world in a pan) and my group had a great Amboise experience.
Bon voyage!
