Learn The Secrets Of French Cooking & Baking – In Paris
Taking a cooking class in Paris is one of our favorite activities. They are the perfect way to connect with the food culture of a city famous for good eating. A morning or afternoon spent at a cooking class in Paris is something that you'll always remember. These cooking classes range from a class with a street market tour to learning how to create croissants from scratch to cooking in the kitchens of the famous Ritz Hotel.
Our Top-Rated Paris Cooking Classes
1. The Art of French Pastry… Learn from a master chef
2. Create French Macarons in Paris… Take home a box of goodies
3. The Secrets of Croissants… Thanks, Marie Antoinette!
1. Learn the Secrets of Croissants in Paris
Marie Antoinette may have brought them from Austria, but it was French bakers who perfected the croissant. We think these are the epitome of bread making, although it is hard to think of croissants as just bread!
In this action-packed three-hour cooking course you learn how to make croissants from scratch. Your baking-expert instructor takes you step-by-step through the process. You learn about the classic croissant as well as the famous pain au chocolat, croissant aux amandes, pain aux raisins & pain suisse. This is a very popular class offered only once or twice a week, so be sure to book early.
2. The Art of French Pastry & Desserts
The famous Ferrandi Cooking School and Galeries Lafayette Gourmet team up to present this small-group pastry class. Don your chef's hat and learn the tips and tricks on how to make the perfect dessert from a Ferrandi cooking school professional. After two hours you'll not only know how to create your own treats at home, but you'll have the chance to sit down and eat the pastries you've just created.
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3. Make French Macarons in Paris
Travelers love this activity that gets you inside the culinary world of Paris. Your chef — a graduate of the Lenôtre Culinary Institute — takes you through the making of of these colorful, ganache-filled treats step by step. Create, from scratch, two different flavors of macarons, with classical fillings such as chocolate, lemon, salted butter caramel, coffee, pistachio, walnut.
You leave the class with a box of your very own macaron creations to share with your family and friends… if you want to share them!
4. Market Tour & Classic French Cooking Course
Visiting an open-air food market in Paris is the height of a French food experience. With an expert chef as your guide you meet local merchants and learn all about the varieties of French fruits and vegetables at an iconic market in the Latin Quarter.
Then, with loaded baskets and bags in hand, it's out to the cooking studio where your chef shows you how to turn your purchases into a fabulous 4-course lunch. Once you're done cooking, sit down with your classmates and enjoy your creations. With wine, of course!
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5. Cookin' At The Ritz
The iconic Ritz Hotel in Paris is also home to the Ecole Ritz Escoffier, the professional cooking school that also offers short courses for home cooks. It's a wonderful experience to learn under the guidance of a master chef while you're in one of the most famous kitchens in the world.
We had the chance to take the Bistro Classics class here and found it to be a wonderful and informative experience. We'll tell you all about it…
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