The World Is a Kitchen: Culinary Schools & Classes: Europe

Culinary Schools and Classes: Europe

The world has a lot to offer when it comes to cooking schools, classes, and culinary tours. The choices are myriad and research can be exhausting. The goal of our Resource Section is to provide you with a starting point to investigate the world of culinary travel. Here is our resource section on classes and schools located in Europe:

Aldeburgh Cookery School
Located in Suffolk, England, this school offers full-day, hands-on courses using fresh, local products.

At Home with Patricia Wells
Popular cooking classes in Paris or Provence with well-known cookbook author Patricia Wells. Classes in 2006 and 2007 are booked, but you can get on a waiting list.

Badia a Coltibuono
A B&B offering courses in classical Tuscan cuisine, focusing on the fresh products of the region.

Ballymaloe Cookery School
Half-day, full-day, 2-day and 4-day courses on traditional Irish cuisine.

Belle Isle School of Cookery
Located in Northern Ireland, this school offers hands-on courses to introduce you to the local bounty and national cuisine.

Berry Lodge Cookery School
Located in County Clare, Ireland, this country house/B&B offers cooking holidays and culinary courses such as A Taste of Irish Cooking and Creative Pub Cookery.

Betty’s Cookery School
Proprietors of the Craft Bakery and Betty’s Café Tea Rooms in Harrogate, England offer bread-making courses, specialty chocolate courses, and their popular Yorkshire course.

Casa Caponetti
A cooking school in Tuscany, Italy offering all-inclusive packages (airport transfer, accommodations, meals, tours, and classes).

Confident Cooking
Residential weekend courses, day courses, and demonstrations at Manor House in a small Wiltshire village (England).

Cook in France
Offering a relaxed hands-on cooking holiday in Dordogne, France.

Cooking with Friends in France
One-week all inclusive class on the French Riviera featuring culinary history, hands-on classes, and gourmet dining in a foodie’s paradise.

Cordon Bleu
Offering short courses and gourmet sessions. Programs vary by locations.

Cours de Cuisine with Francoise Meunier
Three-hour course includes preparation of 3 dishes. Also offers demonstrations and private lessons.

Cuisine et Tradition School of Provencale Cuisine
Vacation getaways combining a B&B and Provencal cooking school in Arles.

Dunbrody Abbey Cookery Centre
Culinary courses that emphasize fresh Irish ingredients and specializing in regional and national cuisines of Ireland.

Ecco la Cucina: The Italian Culinary Experience
Intimate cooking classes at an estate in Tuscany. One-day seminars, or week-long vacations which include meals, accommodations, and day trips to cheesemakers, wineries, olive oil mills, and more.

Ecole de Cuisine du Domaine d’Esperance
A French cooking school located in an 18th-century house in Gascony. One-week seminars are held six times per year, with transportation, lodging and meals included.

Fontana del Papa
Learn Italian cuisine in a small family-run, secluded, 16th-century farmhouse.

Food Artisans Culinary Workshops in Italy
Week-long culinary programs exploring the backroads of Italian food culture. Located in Campania, Tuscany, Piemonte, and Emilia-Romagna.

Good Tastes of Tuscany
Hands-on cooking classes held at 13th-century Villa Pandolfini, as well as wine tours throughout Tuscany.

Giuliano Bugialli’s Foods of Italy
Located in Florence, and one of the first Italian cooking schools to teach in English, this school combines cooking instruction with full immersion in local life and culture.

Helsinki Culinary Institute
Half-day and full-day courses and workshops on Finnish cooking.

Hotel Pelops Cooking Courses
Five-day Greek cooking courses.

Institut Paul Bocuse
Week-long courses in the foundations of French cooking are offered to recreational cooks at this famed school located in a 19th-century chateau in Lyon.

Italian Cookery Course
Selected as one of the Top 10 Cooking Schools in Europe by The Observer, this school at Casa Ombuto offers courses in Tuscan and Italian Mediterranean cooking.

La Cuisine de Marie Blanche
Located in France, this school offers a wide variety of classes, including cooking, pastry, tasting, as well as longer term courses awarding a Grand Diplome.

La Divina Cucina
One-, two-, and three-day sessions, as well as tours. Located in Florence, Italy.

La Cachette Culinary Academy
An eight-day culinary journey with master chef Karl-Heniz Dickheiwer.

La Combe en Perigord
Culinary vacations set in the heart of France. Guest chef programs, week-long classes, and the Un-Programmed Program, where you create your own schedule.

La Divina Cucina
One-, two-, and three-day sessions are offered in Italian cuisine, along with special culinary tours to Chianti.

La Manoir de L’Aufragere Cookery School
Set in an 18th-century manor house in Normany, France, La Manoir offers Cordon Bleu gastronomic cooking courses, as well as accommodations.

LaVarenne
Bilingual weeklong classes are held in the summer and fall at the Chateau du Fey in the heart of Burgundy.

Leith’s School of Food and Wine
In addition to professional training, this London school offers evening, Saturday, and special interest cooking courses.

Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons/Raymond Blanc Cookery School
One- two-, and four-day classes, which can include a 7-course dinner, luxury accommodations, breakfast and lunch, as well as the opportunity to watch and learn in the kitchens of a two-Michelin Star restaurant.

Manoir de Bellerive
Located on the banks of the Dordogne, courses are offered in 3- and 6-day increments, and include visits to the area’s castles, caves, villages, and prehistoric sites.

Nick Nairn Cook School
Located in Menteith, TV chef Nick Nairn offers one- to five-day courses focusing on New Scottish cuisine.

Padstow Seafood School
Led by chef Rick Stein, the courses endeavor to cover every aspect of seafood cookery. One of the few of its kind in the world, it is located on the coast of England.

Promenades Gourmandes with Paule Caillat
An intimate cooking school offering full-day classes. Operated in the Paris apartment of Chef Caillat.

Rhodes School of Cuisine
Offering luxury vacations at their three cooking schools in France, Morocco, and Italy.

Ritz-Escoffier Ecole de la Gastronomie Francaise
One-week certificate courses open to professionals and amateurs at this famed school.

Scuola di Arte Culinaria
Dedicated to promoting the culinary culture of Umbria, this school is located on a modern estate and offers a variety of courses.

A Taste of Provence
Culinary adventures set in a Provencal farmhouse. Limited to six guests, this all-inclusive program shops the local markets, provides hands-on classes, and local tours.

Tenuta di Capezzana Wine and Culinary Center
An estate producing wine and olive oil, they also offer cooking workshops in the estate kitchen in the hills overlooking Florence.

Toscana in Bocca
Culinary school focusing on history, tradition, and the rich variety of products available in the Tuscan region.

Toscana Saporita Cooking School
Italian cooking school offering small hands-on classes as well as tours throughout Tuscany.

Umberto Cooking School/Villa Delia Cooking School
Umberto Menghi runs the Villa Delia Cooking School in Tuscany, offering both all-inclusive cooking school packages, as well as stand-alone classes.

Walnut Grove Cookery School
Five-day all-inclusive cookery courses in the Loire Valley, featuring contemporary Continental cuisine with elegant presentation.

Comments

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Posted by: Sinéad Allart | February 23, 2007 at 02:48 PM

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Posted by: adams | March 26, 2007 at 08:21 AM

Please send me information on how to get enrolled. and I need to know the qualifications,age limits ,course fee,and accomadation.
thanking you,
wating for a quick reply

Posted by: S.W.Edwin | May 23, 2007 at 06:33 PM

hi, i would also like information that the person above me requested. is there a course in the summer?

Posted by: Emily | July 15, 2007 at 08:29 AM

Bonjour i would like to ask if how long the programme at the fee and accomodation, and also after graduate is the a work for student there in europe? I wanted to work there to learn more about european cuisines.. thank you i hope you hit me back thanks

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