Private cooking classes in Paris: If you are in Paris for a few days, we can schedule you for a cooking class with a French Chef, to learn with fun , french cooking of any kind. Many courses offered, from great Chefs like the workshops of Alain Ducasse, to french country cooking in a chef workshop, from french pastries baking, ....it is a great fun to do with your daughter for example!  Classes also offered for children , with or without parents.....they will learn on how to make a pizza, chocolate mousse, or quiche. Two hour children cooking classes for children from 9 to 12 years old. A Typical class goes like this: FRENCH COUNTRY COOKING Each student will have an apron and a dishcloth.
The recipes are ready: one starter, one main dish and one dessert.
Each student has their own menu and may write on it.
All ingredients for recipes are out and ready for weighing.
After a rapid check on how much students know about these ingredients the class begins, hands-on method.
We prepare three dishes in 2 hours.
We set rapidly the table, with an explanation of how to place the cutlery and the glasses. We then take our meal together; Each dish is properly presented, we drink a glass of wine with the meal, and a coffee is served. Classes are with a minimum of 2 students to 10 per class. English & French speaking. Rates are different depending on classes type, please email us. DIETETIC COOKING CLASSES IN PARIS: Frederique Lauwerier's Diet Cafe teaches students how to prepare light, healthy French specialties. A registered nutritionist and a trained chef, Ms. Lauwerier's dishes usually have a Provencal accent. A sample spring menu might be asparagus with truffle sauce, veal with fennel and Earl Grey sorbet. Frederique's approach is all about staying Zen. She explains most of what you need to know about her theory while sauteing some onions, "To cook, you only need olive oil or peanut oil." Butter, it seems, doesn't get any shelf space in her fridge. A dietician and pharmacist by training, Frederique has the aura of a person whose real age would surprise you. She's far from fat, and just as importantly, far from too thin and has a healthy glow not seen on most Parisian faces. Whatever her age, she comes across as very comfortable with herself and very good with people. The food made at Diet Cafe tastes healthy without leaving the feeling that you're missing out or that you'll be hungry at the end of the meal. Frederique guides her students through a vanilla-scented sea bass tartare surrounded by finely diced beets in hazelnut oil. Whether it's with this or a pumpkin soup with sauteed scallops, the beauty of the preparation, the freshness of the ingredients and the flavours they create when combined make you think of a haute cuisine restaurant much sooner than a health-oriented cooking course. Occasionally, a "diet" tinge does come through, as in a fructose-sweetened tarragon-scented ice cream served with sauteed, honeyed pineapple, yet in a similar jasmine tea-scented version with pears, it tastes just fine. "I come to Frederique's courses because I feel less guilty about what I eat, but it also gives me more confidence when I go to the market," explains Parisian FC. "I'm less afraid when I shop at the market and more inspired to try new things". |
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