Location:

Avignon, France

Program Type:

Study Abroad

Degree Level:

Undergraduate

Term:

Fall Semester, Spring Semester, Summer

Program Overview

Program Description:

More than just recipes and techniques, this adventure brings you to the best of Provencal way of life - a life based around friends, the kitchen, wonderful food prepared from the freshest local ingredients, famous wines, liquors, warm nights and fun.

This four-day three-night or six-day five-night English language programs ​include lodging in a beautiful Provencal mansion, hands-on cooking classes led by Philippe, all fine wines and dinners, visit to a market of Provence, visit to Van Gogh retreat at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole and more...

Each day’s program offers something different:  4-courses menus covering about 20 recipes prepared together and shared around the home table, cheese and wines tasting from a selection of prestigious French wines. Participants are supplied with apron, chef hat and a booklet of Philippe's detailed recipes to take back home with them.
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“Aïoli gently intoxicates, charges the body with warmth, and bathes the soul in rapture. In its essence, it concentrates the force and the joy of the sun of Provence. Around an aïoli, well-perfumed and bright as a vein of gold, where are these men who would not recognize themselves as brothers? ”
(Frédéric Mistral, a Provencal poet and renowned gourmet)​

Setting Description:

Since 1995, Philippe Gion welcomes food lovers, novice and seasoned cook alike, in his school of cuisine in Saint Remy-de- Provence, a famous village with vineyards, old stones, roman tiles, olive trees, tall plane trees shadowing the village place.This school comes from his love of entertaining and a passion for cooking.

Cost:

COOKING CLASSES 4 Day-3 Night 1300 Euros per person, double occupancy COOKING CLASSES 6 Day-5 Night 2300 Euros per person, double occupancy COOKING CLASS AT YOUR HOME 180 Euros per person (minimum 4 persons)

Additional Program Information

Requirements:

minimum age:12

Scholarships:

No