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> OUR PROGRAMS IN PARIS “Merci, Merci ! for the fabulous cooking class we had. Your warm passion will be remembered, “Your cooking class was one of the most memorable events during my stay in France. “Thank you so much for your class. It was so much fun. “Class was wonderful!! A delight and real highlight of our trip.” You plan to visit France and Paris in the near future. As a gourmet enthusiast and food & wine lover, you decide to experience the French cuisine and wines.Lifestyle Vacations offers unique cooking, pastry, and baking classes in Paris, as well as wines tasting classes. Ready to indulge in the secret Paris ? Do not miss Corinne’s exclusive gourmet tours featuring the very best that Paris has to offer : chocolate, pastries, macaroons, olive oils, southwest specialities, bread, cheese and wine > More informations about cooking classes in France • Market Visit & Cooking Class celebrating the French Traditional Cuisine
Your cooking adventure in Paris begins at 9:15am by the food market visit with chef Myriam. During one hour, she provides all necessary information on seasonal produces, and tips such as: how to choose your produces, which one to buy and at what price, how to pair it, how to cook it, etc. Back to the school at around 10:45am, you wash hands, wear your apron. You review the menu with the chef and you start to prepare and cook a three-course meal (starter, main course, and dessert) that pays tribute to the French traditions and culture. Class lasts about 2 hours and half, and it’s followed by the tasting lunch accompanied by wine. You enjoy the fruits of your labor at Myriam’s elegant Parisian-style dining room furnished with stylish antiques. Among the chef’s specialities, we recommend : Mushrooms “Cappuccino-style” creamy soup, Honey & Coriander flavored Eggplant confit, Rack of Lamb cooked in a figs crust, Chicken Made-in-Normandy (cooked with apples and cider), Orange-flavored Duck Magret (fillet), Apple Tart Tatin, Chocolate and Rasberries Tart, Cherry Clafoutis (traditional custard tart), Ile Flottante (meringue with crème anglaise and caramel), Framboisine, and much more !
The Opera Cooking School is located right bank, steps to the boulevard Haussmann shopping area. It’s nestled in a beautifully 19th century restored apartment, home to Executive Chef Myriam Claire. In her spacious and well equipped kitchen, Myriam operates intimate hands-on courses for amateurs, limited to 8 participants. Classes are taught in English and recipes are in English too. Please note Myriam has cats. Upon request, we offer evening classes, starting at 6:30pm. Tasting dinners accompanied by wine follow. Program price :
>> TOP Our healthy life also depends on our fooding habits. As Mireille Guiliano explained in her best-seller “French Women Don’t Get Fat”: you always need to keep in mind that eating should be a pleasure and a gift to your body. The right fooding begins by the good produce to choose and to buy, it continues by the way you prepare it, and the time you grant to your lunch and dinner, considering that you need to sit for eating, to eat slowly in a quiet environment.
On partaking a cooking class celebrating the light French cuisine, you experience original recipes that definitely keeps the fat and sugar away. Each dish you prepare uses the fresh seasonal produces from the market. You realize immediately that vegetables, fruits and aromatic herbs are the basis of your meal. The meat is grilled and the fish is cooked steamed… Butter is never used in the pan… and the olive oil just tops the salad before it’s served. Light cuisine classes are operated by chef Myriam Claire at the Opera Cooking School. Classes are taught in English and limited to 8 participants. Class starts at 10:30am for 3 hours, lunch included. From Tuesday through Saturday, you can join the chef for the shopping on the food market. Program price :
>> TOP Paris is simply beautiful and when we explore the city by walking slowly, memories will be kept in mind for ever. Now comes the time of the gourmet tour, and the adventure begins for you : the Epicureans !Lifestyle Vacations’ customized itinerary is based on a four-hour private exploration of Paris left bank, totally off-the beaten paths. This unique tour, that Corinne Preteur has personally designed and escorts, features the best culinary spots, a selection of Corinne’s personal addresses and contacts among the artisans she has been in touch with for more than twenty years. When regular tours count participants by dozens, Corinne’s unique gourmet tours are intimate, limited to 4 people. This one-of-a-kind program is scheduled in the morning, starting at 9:30am by the food market visit, available year-round except on legal holidays, from Tuesday through Saturday.
Along the market visit, Corinne provides her personal tips and recipes using fresh seasonal produces, and explain how to combine and cook flavorful ingredients without too much fat that make the French cuisine so unique. The trail continues through the elegant Saint Germain des Prés narrow streets where you find the best bakeries, cheese, charcuteries and olive oils shops, as well as finest pastries, macaroons and chocolate boutiques. We taste products in the shops, sometimes we share a glass of wine with the merchants, but Corinne also buys the food. At around noon, she offers a food & wine tasting lunch break at Georges’, the owner of a tiny wines shop nearby the Marché Saint Germain. Unique ! Prices : AVAILABILITY : Gourmet tours are scheduled from Tuesday through Saturday, starting at 9:30am for 4 hours. It’s available year-round, except in August and on Legal Holidays
>> TOP 20 minutes distance to Paris, the city of Versailles is not only one the most interesting cultural site in France, attracting visitors thanks to the beauty of its 17th century royal chateau and gardens, but also a spot for food enthusiasts. Aside to gourmet restaurants (Trianon Palace, l’Angélique, and much more), Versailles features the attractive Notre Dame quarter with its food and flowers market square where merchants display their quality products and contribute to the friendly atmosphere. It’s along that market that Patricia opened her cooking school, after she graduated from the Cordon Bleu in Paris. In a bright and convivial kitchen furnished with professional equipments and appliances, she offers intimate courses limited to 8 participants. Classes are taught in English.
Versailles remains a full-day excursion when you stay in Paris. In the morning, join Chef Patricia on Notre Dame food market for a unique visit and shopping where she takes the time to explain the varieties of products among fish, meat, vegetables and fruits, cheese, bread, oils and spices... and provides her personal tips to prepare and cook it. The visit lasts about one hour, starting at 9:15am. Then you link the school. Easy to get there as you just have to cross the street! You wash hands, wear your apron (fuchsia color for women, dark brown for men) and you start to prepare a 3-course meal celebrating the delightful French cuisine and following the seasonal produces from the market. Under the chef direction, you peal, cut, chop, slice the first ingredients that flavor the dishes. The class lasts at least 3 hours, and it’s of course hands-on. When other schools design their menus with traditional dishes such as boeuf bourguignon, blanquette de veau, brandade de morue, crème brulée, ile flottante, etc. the Versailles Cooking School makes the difference by offering a refined cuisine with recipes that are not so difficult to make, but that will impress your guests considering the beautiful presentation and decoration in the plate. Menus suggested could be : girolles (wild mushrooms) velouté creamy soup with smoked salmon, orange-flavored duck in a crust, with candied oranges, light millefeuille with tangerine zests. Foie gras raviolis and chive-flavored cream, fillet of sole with tapenade-flavored mashed potatoes purée, chestnuts cream with fresh pineapple and pina-colada sorbet. Salmon in a fresh herbs crust and its vegetable flan, candied orange flavoured chocolate soufflé. Rack of lamb with a Mediterranean vegetable tian, pink pralines cupcakes and its praline and orange blossom flavored custard. Delightful 3-course tasting lunch accompanied by wine follows the class. PROGRAM PRICE : $ 255 per person – Cooking class and 3-course tasting lunch
Michel Galloyer is - like Eric Kayser - the rising-star bread maker in France, as well as one of the most talented pastry chef. He owns the successful artisan bakery chain “Le Grenier à Pains”, offering delightful breads and pastries in Paris and beyond. Gourmet Parisians regularly enter the bakery to buy bread and pastries, but gourmet amateurs now have the privilege to explore the laboratory to partake an intimate bread, pastry, or macaroons class. As you plan a trip to Paris in the near future, do not miss this unique and exciting experience, especially as Lifestyle Vacations offers classes taught in English ! Classes are limited to 8 participants, and taught in English
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Once upon a time… here could begin the story of the macaroons, those little almond cookies which took part of gourmet celebrations all over Europe centuries ago. The history begun at the Renaissance in Northern Italy before spreading through Europe. This is a period which hardly influenced painting, sculpture, architecture, and cooking as well. But at the Millenium, a new macaroon created a huge revolution in the culinary traditions : a cute, lovely and colorfull “mini-hamburger”, crispy outside and creamy in the middle which brings “Que du plaisir”… I mean : only pleasure ! Classes are limited to 6 participants, and taught in English
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When visiting France first time, you pushed the door of a artisan bakery and delighted with the freshly baked baguette “Parisian bread”. You now plan your upcoming trip to Paris, and you would like to learn how to make the French bread and do it in your own kitchen when back home. Great idea ! Lifestyle Vacations offers the course you need. Whether you are beginner or advanced, our bread classes are scheduled on a three-hour basis. It takes place in Sevres, at Le Grenier à Pains which is the best artisan bakery of this little town located west to Paris, linked from Paris by metro (ligne 9 to Pont de Sevres). From the terminus, it takes 10mn by walking to get to the bakery and the “fournil”. Classes are limited to 6 participants, and taught in English
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This is one of the oldest and the most prestigious Parisian cooking school, located on the elegant Champs Elysées Avenue. Founded in 1971 by a famous Michelin-starred Chef, the Pavilion begun its activity by providing professional trainings. Now the school has opened classes for amateurs. This is definitely the right place for learning how to make the French pastries. In a professional environment but in a warm and friendly atmosphere, you will experience the very best of the “patisserie française”, from the chocolate tart or Eclair, to the famous “Tatin” or other fruits delicacies, the little Madeleines, Cannelés, Spicy Bread or Macaroons to be served at the tea time, the Brioches or Croissants to sunshine your breakfasts… and many other delicacies that you will be able to make when you are back home. The school schedules half-day classes year-round, from 9:00 am to 12:30pm and from 2:00 pm to 5:30pm. The class is not followed by a tasting at the school (except for the sorbets), but you take the pastries (for two) you have made. Please note that the cooking school has also locations in Cannes and Nice, on the French Riviera. Contact us for more information. Program price : $ 270.00 per person
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Cruising on the river Seine to admire the beauties of Paris while enjoying a unique Champagne tasting: so elegant, so romantic, so delightful ! Program price : $ 120 per person (cruise and Champagne tasting class included)
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France is famous for its food & wines. From Bordeaux to Burgundy, Champagne, Alsace, the Loire Valley, the Côtes de Provence, the Côtes du Rhône, the Beaujolais, the South West… indulge in the great world of the French wines in participating to a conference and tasting in Paris. From a quick introduction to a wine & cheese pairing class, Lifestyle Vacations gives you the opportunity to enhance your understanding in the French wines and especially to learn how to choose the right wines at any occasion and to pair it with the lunch or the dinner you will serve. >> You are a beginner… >> You are a connoisseur… >> You love the wine & cheese…
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